He said today that he was ready to exert “maximum pressure” in Iran, if Tehran denies the “Oil Branch” that the US president estimates to tend to talk about an Iranian agreement.
At the same time, the US president said during a visit to Saudi Arabia that he wants to offer a “new way” to the Iranian leadership, adding “for Iran, I was never in favor of having eternal enemies.”
However, Trump said Iran is “the most devastating force” in the Middle East, contrasting Iran’s actions with what he describes as positive developments in the Arabian peninsula.
“The largest and most devastating of these forces is the regime in Iran, which has caused unthinkable suffering in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq, Yemen, and beyond Yemen,” the US president said in a business forum in Riyadh, accusing him of the US.
“I want to make an agreement with Iran,” he said. “But if Iran’s leadership denies this oil industry, we will have no choice but to exert mass maximum pressure.”
He stressed that his proposal to Iran for an agreement would not last forever.
“We will drive exports of Iranian oil to zero,” he said.
Addressing a final warning and a possible opening for diplomacy as he said, the US president said Iran had a choice, or to continue his “chaos and terror” or follow a course to peace.
Tehran has repeatedly rejected the accusations that it is stabbing instability in the Middle East.
Trump also underlined the intense opposition between what he called Saudi Arabia’s “constructive vision” and “collapse and suffering” caused by Iranian leaders, he said. “There could be no more intense contrast to the course you have followed in the Arabian peninsula (on the one hand) and the destruction that unfolds precisely in the Gulf of Iran” (on the other).
