Iran Offers ‘Immediate’ Return to June Deal With U.S. as Trump Threatens to ‘Smack’ Tehran

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said that Tehran is ready to “immediately” re-enter the memorandum of understanding with the U.S. signed in June if Washington chooses to do so. “I state explicitly that if the United States returns to its commitments under the aforementioned memorandum of understanding, the Islamic Republic of Iran will immediately take reciprocal action,” Pezeshkian said at a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Kyrgyzstan. The president’s statement came after President Trump threatened to “smack” Iran after Tehran fired ballistic missiles and drones at U.S. army bases in Jordan and the UAE in response to American attacks on Iranian rocket launchers. “This is a relatively little war for us. This is not a big war. They’re a failed nation. That doesn’t mean we won’t smack them. We’ll see what happens,” Trump told CBS News. The president also fired back at a reporter who asked him if he would be willing to use a nuclear weapon against Iran, saying: “There is no reason for it… What a stupid question. They’re totally defeated militarily, and now I should use a nuclear weapon on them? What a stupid question.”Trump’s threats to “smack” Iran came after he posted an AI-generated video on Monday, showing Iran’s Kharg Island being bombed with the caption: “Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!!”Vice President JD Vance said the video was intended to send a message to Iran.“We know that they continue to shoot at commercial shipping. We continue to have a lot of tools at our disposal to prevent them from doing so, or at least cut down on them from doing so, and that’s what the president is saying is, ‘Look, you guys are shooting at commercial shipping. You guys are behaving like a terrorist country. You’ve got to stop or there are going to be some consequences’,” he said. While Trump is yet to follow through on his threat, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency reported that a tanker had been hit by three “unknown projectiles” while completing an outbound transit of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati meanwhile claimed that Tehran has “enough” foreign currency and that the bank could infuse up to $2 billion into the foreign exchange market if needed. “I am telling the president of the United States: Iran has (foreign) currency and it has enough,” he said. The governor’s claim came after Washington continued to push for more sanctions against Iran to further damage the country’s economy.

Iran Offers ‘Immediate’ Return to June Deal With U.S. as Trump Threatens to ‘Smack’ Tehran

Iran Offers ‘Immediate’ Return to June Deal With U.S. as Trump Threatens to ‘Smack’ Tehran

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