Trump: We Don’t Need A Deal With Iran
In a Truth Social post, the president also tells Vice President Vance to focus on alleged corruption in Democratic-run states, as Qatar’s mediation continues
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Washington no longer needs a deal with Iran, claiming the United States holds Tehran’s money and the Strait of Hormuz. “We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed,” he wrote on Truth Social.
He added that
we’ve got their money, hundreds of billions of dollars, and we’ve got their Strait.
In the same post, Trump said he asked Vice President JD Vance to give his “complete and total attention” to what he called massive corruption and crime in Democratic-run cities and states. He named Minnesota, California and Illinois, which he called “poorly run, corrupt disasters,” alleged that billions of dollars are being stolen every month, and said the federal budget could be balanced quickly by correcting this. He did not offer evidence, and the post does not explain how the money was taken. The White House has not said what the instruction to Vance means for his role on Iran, where he led the US delegation in Islamabad talks in April.
The post comes as Qatar continues to mediate between Washington and Tehran, and Iran has said its offer to reopen the strait within two days of an agreement, if the US meets its demands, remains on the table. Those demands include lifting oil sanctions, ending the US naval blockade and releasing frozen assets, which Iranian state media put at $12 billion, including $6 billion held in Qatar.
US officials said earlier that no frozen Iranian funds had been released
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday there is “no need for major combat operations” because economic pressure is working, while Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said the conflict will not be resolved through military means or by intensifying sanctions. Iran has not yet responded to Trump’s post.