Make Deal Or Be Blown Away, Trump Warns Iran

US President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Iran to make a deal to end U.S. and Israeli bombing ‌or face more strikes on their country.

“They now have the chance, that is Iran, to permanently abandon their nuclear ambitions and to join a new path forward,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting ⁠at the White House. “We’ll see if they want to do it. If they don’t, we’re their worst nightmare. In the meantime, we’ll just keep blowing them away.”

Trump spoke after a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Thursday that Washington’s proposal for ending nearly four weeks of fighting is “one-sided and unfair” but that diplomacy ‌ continues.

U.S. President Donald Trump gives remarks at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) annual fundraising dinner in Washington

Trump ⁠said Iranians were talking with the U.S. and described them as desperate to make a deal, characterizations Tehran has denied.

He also cast Iranian officials as “great negotiators” and said he ⁠was seeking an agreement that opens the Strait of Hormuz and shuts down Tehran’s military ambitions. Trump suggested that a deal ⁠might not ultimately come together.

“I don’t know if we’ll be able to do that,” he said ⁠of the prospects for a deal. I don’t know if we’re willing to do that.”