Iran-US war latest: Trump says Tehran not ready to make ‘right deal’ after threatening ‘Economic D-Day’
US president Donald Trump has claimed that Iran was not ready “to make the right deal” after promising to wage “Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale” on Tehran.
“They would love to make a deal, but they’re not ready to make the right deal, in my opinion,” Trump said of Iran on Friday.
Iran has accused Trump of threatening “economic terrorism” after the US treasury said it would introduce the “toughest sanctions in history” against Tehran.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei on Saturday said that the imminent US announcement of new economic sanctions on Iran was an “assertion of extraterritorial sovereignty over every independent member state of the United Nations”.
“Such secondary sanctions find no foundation in international law,” he said in a post on X.
Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian has said that it is now time to end the war between Tehran and the US on Friday. “It is better that we bring the war to an end now as we are in a position of power and dignity,” Pezeshkian said in a meeting with doctors in the country.
