PRESIDENT Donald Trump has warned that Iran “better get serious” about agreeing a peace deal “before it is too late”.
It comes as Nato responded to Trump’s latest barrage of insults, which claimed it had done “nothing to help” the US-Israeli campaign.
Trump said today that Iran‘s negotiators were “very different and strange”, calling out the disparity between the rogue nation’s backchannel talks and what it says to the world.
It comes as…
Iran’s military yesterday denied that peace talks were taking place at all and claimed the US was talking to itself.
Iranian state media then said it had rejected Trump’s 15-point peace plan entirely, branding it “excessive”, before presenting an alternative set of demands.
But Trump seems to still be talking to his “strange” counterpart in the regime.
The US president wrote today: “They are ‘begging’ us to make a deal, which they should be doing since they have been militarily obliterated, with zero chance of a comeback, and yet they publicly state that they are only ‘looking at our proposal’.”
Trump warned that there would be serious consequences if Iran did not move towards a peace deal.
He said: “They better get serious soon, before it is too late, because once that happens, there is NO TURNING BACK, and it won’t be pretty!”
The US President has been hurling insults at Britain and his other Nato allies in recent weeks as he lambasted them for not coming to the US’s aid in the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier: “NATO NATIONS HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP WITH THE LUNATIC NATION, NOW MILITARILY DECIMATED, OF IRAN.
“THE U.S.A. NEEDS NOTHING FROM NATO, BUT ‘NEVER FORGET’ THIS VERY IMPORTANT POINT IN TIME!”
Last week, he slammed Nato allies as “cowards”, writing: “Without the U.S.A., NATO IS A PAPER TIGER! They didn’t want to join the fight to stop a Nuclear Powered Iran.
He added: “Now that fight is Militarily WON, with very little danger for them, they complain about the high oil prices they are forced to pay, but don’t want to help open the Strait of Hormuz, a simple military maneuver that is the single reason for the high oil prices.
“So easy for them to do, with so little risk. COWARDS, and we will REMEMBER!”
Nato secretary general Mark Rutte has responded to Trump’s jibes today, admitting that “for too long, European allies and Canada were over reliant on US military might”.
He said that allies “took a historic decision to raise defence investment to five per cent of GDP”, adding: “We did not take enough responsibility for our own security.
“But there has been a real shift in mindset, a collective recognition of our changed security environment.”
It came as Israel said it had killed the Iranian navy boss responsible for shutting the Strait of Hormuz.
Alireza Tangsiri, 64, a key figure in maintaining control over the critical waterway, died in an airstrike at a nearby port city, an Israeli official said.
The source told The Jerusalem Post that the Navy leader was killed in Bandar Abbas – located on Iran‘s coast with the trade artery.
Under Tangsiri’s command, the Iranian Navy mined the strait and bombed any hostile vessels passing through.
