Evian-les-Bains (France): US president Donald Trump has said that if he does not like the text of the deal with Iran, America will start striking the Islamic Republic again.
This came barely two days before the US and Iran sign the memorandum of understanding to end months of war.
The agreement between the US and Iran is “not final, Trump said, while addressing reporters at the G7 Summit in France on Wednesday, alongside Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
“It’s a memorandum of understanding. And if I don’t like it, we’ll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their heads,” the US president said.
“If I don’t like it, if they don’t behave, we’ll go right back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their heads,” he added.
At the same time, the Republican leader said during the interaction that the US-Iran framework deal is “very strong”.
“Nobody knows what it is, but it’s very strong,” he said.
The markets are “really happy” since the announcement of the US-Iran framework deal, and the Strait of Hormuz will be fully open a “day or two” after the signing, Trump said, as reported by NDTV.
“What is really happy is the [stock] market that has gone wild. It’s gone through the roof. And oil has tumbled down,” Trump said. “That speaks louder than words.”
He also accused former US president Barack Obama of “bribing” Iran with a planeload of money sent during the 2015 nuclear agreement.
“The JCPOA done by Obama: he handed them $1.7bn in cash, green cash from banks, into a Boeing 757 and flew it into Iran. And they stood at the plane, I have pictures of it, ‘oh my god, look at this money he’s giving us’,” Trump told reporters at the summit.
“He tried to bribe his way out. I didn’t try to do that… You know what the Iranians did? They laughed at Obama and said he’s a stupid son of a b***h,” he added.
US vice president J D Vance had said on Monday that both sides have already “signed the deal digitally”, stressing that any sanctions relief for Tehran as part of the agreement would depend on the Islamic Republic’s compliance with commitments under the agreement.
