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President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the U.S. Treasury Department\u2019s Trump Accounts Summit, in Washington, D.C., today. Trump urged Iran today to come to the table and make a deal on nuclear weapons or the next U.S. attack would be far worse, but Tehran said that if that happened, it would fight back as never before.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump urged Iran today to come to the table and make a deal on nuclear weapons or the next U.S. attack would be far worse, but Tehran said that if that happened, it would fight back as never before.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully Iran will quickly \u2018Come to the Table\u2019 and negotiate a fair and equitable deal \u2013 NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS \u2013 one that is good for all parties. Time is running out, it is truly of the essence!\u201d Trump wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n
The president, who pulled out of world powers\u2019 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran during his first White House term, noted that his last warning to Iran was followed by a military strike in June.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe next attack will be far worse! Don\u2019t make that happen again,\u201d Trump wrote. He also repeated that a U.S. \u201carmada\u201d was heading toward the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s mission to the United Nations responded in kind.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast time the U.S. blundered into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it squandered over $7 trillion and lost more than 7,000 American lives,\u201d it said in an X post quoting Trump\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIran stands ready for dialogue based on mutual respect and interests\u2014BUT IF PUSHED, IT WILL DEFEND ITSELF AND RESPOND LIKE NEVER BEFORE!\u201d<\/p>\n
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said he had not been in contact with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff in recent days or requested negotiations, state media reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Trump said a U.S. naval force headed by the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln was approaching Iran. Two U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday that the Lincoln and supporting warships had arrived in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
The warships started moving from the Asia-Pacific region last week as U.S.-Iranian tensions soared following a bloody crackdown on protests across Iran by its clerical authorities in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
Trump has repeatedly threatened to intervene if Iran continued to kill protesters, but the countrywide demonstrations over economic privations and political repression have since abated.<\/p>\n
He has said the United States would act if Tehran resumed its nuclear program after the June airstrikes by Israeli and U.S. forces on key nuclear installations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REUTERS\/KEVIN LAMARQUE President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the U.S. Treasury Department\u2019s Trump Accounts Summit, in Washington, D.C.,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,111,452,453,965],"class_list":["post-435262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}