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President Donald Trump on Monday said Iran’s theocratic leaders sprung an “interesting idea” he liked so much he is now going to take it and use it against them.
The president posted Iran is demanding compensation for the damage done to the country over the last five months as part of its ongoing deal talks to end the war— and Trump said he thought it was such a brilliant idea he was now ordering his representatives to demand Iran pay the U.S. for all the Americans it has “killed and gravely wounded” since 1979.
Trump also said he was now insisting Iran compensate the families of the “hundreds of thousands of innocent protesters” Iran has killed over the last half-century, including the 52,000 protesters he said were killed since the start of the year.
Here is the president’s full post on Truth Social:
I see that Representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran are asking for compensation for the damage done to them during the last five month Military Conflict (started because, THEY WILL NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON), even though it was never mentioned in any of our negotiations or meetings!
But it is an interesting idea because now I am likewise demanding compensation from Iran, for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts, for which they are famous, as led initially by General Soleimani, including the families of those killed on the USS Cole, and thousands of others killed in combat.
Additionally, compensation should be paid to the families of the hundreds of thousands of innocent protestors that Iran has killed over the last 50 years, not to mention the 52,000 that have been killed in the last five months. I have instructed my representatives to put this firmly into any, and all, future negotiations. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
His post comes a day after Trump said he is “low keying it” when it comes to negotiating with Iran, and that he’s certain it will all “work out” in the end.
“We are only semi-negotiating with them,” Trump told Axios. “We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money.”
Trump on Monday followed up his post shortly after with a call for Iran to be held “responsible for the damages and death caused to the people of Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza!”
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