Latest News

Trump warns that "there will be bombings" if Iran fails to make nuclear deal

Donald Trump, the U.S. president, threatened Iran on Sunday with bombings and secondary duties if Tehran failed to reach an agreement with Washington regarding its nuclear program.

In a phone interview with NBC News Trump stated that U.S. officials and Iranian officials are talking, but did not provide any further details.

Trump warned that if they do not make a deal there would be bombing. "But if they do not make a deal I may impose secondary tariffs like I did in 2004."

Trump, in his first term 2017-21, rescinded the U.S.'s participation in a 2015 agreement between Iran and major world powers which placed strict limitations on Tehran’s disputed nuclear activity as a trade-off for relief from sanctions.

Trump reimposed the U.S. sanctions. Since then, the Islamic Republic's uranium enrichment program has far exceeded the limits agreed upon.

Tehran has rejected Trump's warning that if it doesn't make a deal, there will be military consequences.

Iran has sent a

Response

The official IRNA news agency quoted Abbas Araqchi as saying that Trump wrote to Tehran in a letter urging them to come to a new deal.

Western powers accuse Iran that it has a secret agenda to develop nuclear weapon capability. They say this is done by enriching uranium above the level they consider acceptable for a civil atomic energy program.

Tehran claims its nuclear program is solely for civilian energy. Reporting by Doina chiacu, Editing by David Ljunggren

(source: Reuters)