The government of Tehran sent a new proposal to the Pakistani mediators for negotiations with the United States. Without the terms being disclosed, President Donald Trump already dismissed it in statements to journalists before embarking on a trip this Friday to Florida, which will be his first public event outside the White House since the shooting last Saturday at the correspondents’ dinner.
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“The Iranians want to make a pact but I am not satisfied. We are doing everything possible to negotiate but I don’t know if they will ever reach that point,” replied the U.S. president. But he warned them that “either there is an agreement or we will destroy the country completely.”
“There is great discord among them. There are many problems, they do not get along well among themselves, the leadership in Iran is very disorganized,” he stated. “There are two or three groups, maybe four and, although they all want to make a pact, there is a mess among them,” he reiterated.
Trump insisted that the U.S. is “in the middle of a great victory, like we haven’t had since Venezuela,” he said referring to the kidnapping and transfer to New York in January of then-president Nicolás Maduro. “We are on the path to another great victory,” he insisted.
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“The Iranians have no idea who their leaders are, who are confused by our great military victory. They have no army,” he repeated once more. “Those leaders are incapable of understanding each other,” he continued in his victorious language despite the Strait of Hormuz remaining closed.
“They have been militarily defeated. If we left now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild, but we are not leaving because I am not satisfied at this moment,” he emphasized. It was then that he again threatened to totally destroy Iran if there is no pact. “From a human point of view, I would prefer not to, but that is an option,” he indicated recalling his message from a few weeks ago when he threatened to destroy an entire civilization in one night.
“Do we go with all our force and destroy them or do we want something different?” he wondered. “They are very divided, some want a pact, others want another agreement, including the hardest of the regime. Why do they want it? Because they have no navy, no aviation, no planes, they have nothing,” he added. But Iran resists.
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