US President Donald Trump announced that the ceasefire with Iran is over now. Speaking on Wednesday in Ankara during a press conference at the NATO summit, Trump called off the interim peace deal with Iran and said that he doesn't want to deal with the Iranians anymore. The president described the Iranian leadership as 'scum'.
"To me, I think it's over. I don't want to deal with them anymore. They're scum... They're led by sick people... I'll speak to our negotiators. They want to negotiate — they're good people... but they have to come back to me. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a waste of time dealing with them," he said.
"They're liars, they're cheats, they're sick people. They've hurt their people. They killed 54,000 people — as of now — who were protesting. You know, when people say how come they haven't taken over? They can't take over because they're dead," Trump stated.
"We attacked, very powerfully, last night, the very dangerous people from Iran... There's something wrong with them. We say, 'Go and do your funeral stuff,' and instead of that, they started shooting rockets at ships yesterday. So we hit them very hard last night," he added. United States launched fresh strikes on Iran in retaliation for Tehran hitting three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
"Strikes are in response to Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels that were transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's demonstrated aggression was unwarranted, dangerous, and a clear violation of the ceasefire," the U.S. Central Command said in a post on X.
Earlier, amid spiralling regional tensions, Iran's top negotiator and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf strongly hit back at Washington, detailing numerous breaches of bilateral agreements by the United States.
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