Trump says US will ‘make a deal or finish the job’ with Iran

President Donald Trump has said the United States would either reach a deal ‌with Iran or “finish the job, ” renewing his threat of military action as Tehran projects defiance following the funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Indirect US-Iran talks ​ended last week without any public sign of headway toward ​a lasting peace, despite a 60-day ceasefire intended to ⁠create space for diplomacy following the US and Israeli strikes that ​triggered the conflict. “We’re either going to make a deal, or we’re ​going to finish the job. OK. And it won’t be tough to finish the job. I’d rather make a deal, because I don’t want to affect 91 ​million people, ” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. “We can ​knock down their bridges in one hour, we can knock out their energy supply. .. . ‌They ⁠don’t have any money now. We haven’t given them any money. ” Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr called Trump’s threat “delusional. ” “Iranians are unfamiliar with the language of threats. So speak to the ​Iranian people with ​respect, otherwise⁠ we will respond in another language, ” Zolqadr said in comments carried by state media. Trump spoke after Khamenei’s ​weekend funeral, where, rather than looking weakened by the war that ​began ⁠with US and Israeli strikes on February 28, Iranians appeared to be defiant, united and determined to shape what comes next. The 60-day ceasefire was intended ⁠by ​Washington to revive diplomacy on stopping Iran ​from developing a nuclear arsenal.

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