US President Donald Trump announced the cancellation of the recent peace agreement with Iran. He described Iran’s leaders as very bad people. Retaliation for attacks on three commercial ships in the Strait of HormuzTrump made this big announcement soon after the United States launched a new attack on Iran. At the NATO summit in Turkey, Trump said, “I don’t want to do anything with Iran anymore.”
Asked about the memorandum of understanding signed with Iran just three weeks ago, Trump made it clear that it was over for him now and that he was not ready to make a deal with them. Crude oil prices rose more than 3 percent after Trump’s comments. Iran’s efforts to increase control over the Strait of Hormuz, which supplies about 20 percent of the world’s oil, has led to war between the two countries.
Trump slams Iran’s leadership, saying they are “very violent”Crazy and lying people. If they have nuclear weapons they will definitely use them. However, he said negotiators on both sides could continue to talk, but he believed it would only be a waste of time because Iranian leaders were not credible.
Meanwhile, Iran’s military baseA major US attack targeted missile sites and ports. The attack happened during the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the former supreme leader of Iran, who was killed in a joint US-Israeli attack last March. The new US strikes triggered heavy explosions in several areas, including Iran’s Bandar Abbas and Qishm islands, and heightened tensions across the region.