The president of the United States, Donald Trumpwarned this Wednesday that it will maintain deployed military forces around Iran until the agreement reached is fully implemented and threatened to launch a “bigger and stronger” offensive in case of non-compliance, while ensuring that the Strait of Hormuz will remain open and that Tehran will not develop nuclear weapons.
In a message published in his Truth Social, Trmp stressed that “all US ships, aircraft and military personnel, along with ammunition and weapons, will remain in Iran and its surroundings” until “the actual agreement reached is fully fulfilled”, insisting that the deployment responds to the need to ensure stability in the area. Likewise, he warned that If the pact is not respected, “the battle will begin, bigger, better and stronger never”, although he considered that scenario “very unlikely”, and stressed that “there will be no nuclear weapons” and that the Strait of Hormuz “will remain open and safe”. In the same message, the president assured that the US Armed Forces are “preparing and resting” while waiting for “his next conquest”.
Previously, Trump had said that there is only a set of points accepted by his country in the ceasefire agreed with Iran and that they will be those discussed during the negotiations in the next two weeks, although he did not clarify at the moment what they consist of. “There is a single set of significant ‘points’ that are acceptable to the United States, and we will discuss them behind closed doors during these negotiations,” the president wrote in Truth Social.
It is known that Iran has proposed a ten-point plan to negotiate, including the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the withdrawal of US combat forces deployed in the region, the lifting of all sanctions against Iran and that all of the above be included in a binding resolution of the UN Security Council.
Negotiations in Islamabad
A Iranian delegation will arrive in Islamabad tonight to begin negotiations with the United States to end the war, in an attempt to maintain diplomatic channels despite reports of violations of the ceasefire. “Despite the skepticism of Iranian public opinion (…), the Iranian delegation, invited by the honorable Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, arrives tonight in Islamabad to hold serious talks based on the 10 points proposed by Iran,” the Iranian ambassador to Pakistan, Reza Amiri Moghadam, confirmed in a message on X.
For its part, the White House confirmed this Thursday the sending of a top-level negotiating team for this weekend’s talks. “I can announce that the President is sending his negotiating team, led by the Vice President (JD Vance), Special Envoy for Peace Missions and Jared Kushner to Islamabad,” the US Press Secretary reported.
Trump, against NATO
Meanwhile, Trump has once again attacked NATO and has accused the organization of “not being there” when he needed her. After receiving the alliance’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, at the White House, she also regretted that “she will not be there” when I need her again. This is clear from a message signed by the president on his official Truth Social account.
“Remember Greenland, that huge, poorly managed piece of ice!” concluded the Republican in his message, referring to the fact that many allied countries described American attempts to take control of the island as unacceptable.
Marco Rubio receives Rutte before the NATO secretary general meets with Trump at the White House. / EFE
For his part, Rutte assured this Wednesday in an interview with CNN that Trump was “clearly disappointed” with the alliance today, but that he was also “receptive” during the meeting. Rutte said during the interview that despite the Republican’s clear discontent with the organization he represents, “listened carefully” to their arguments about what is happening in Europe regarding the war in Iran. “It is true that not all European nations fulfilled their commitments. I completely understand your disappointment!“Rutte said, justifying Trump’s recent reproaches against allies who decided not to support him in military operations against Iran.
The meeting comes after Trump has once again attacked several NATO partners, whom he has criticized for closing their airspace, preventing the use of their bases to US operatives attacking Iran or for not wanting to send military ships to the Strait of Hormuz to ensure traffic in the sea passage. In recent weeks Trump has come to describe as “cowards” to NATO memberscalling the alliance a “paper tiger” and threatening on more than one occasion with the departure of the United States.
