P eside t Do ald T ump has th eate ed to bomb Oma – a US ally – if it “gets i the way” of his admi ist atio ‘s ow talks with I a , Fox News epo ts.
A epo te fo the etwo k said the US p eside t made the comme t du i g a pho e call o Mo day, du i g which he also said the US had a di ect backcha el with the Islamic Revolutio a y Gua d Co ps (IRGC).
The IRGC late de ied it was i volved i talks with the US. But I a ia officials said o Mo day they we e close to fi alisi g a deal with Oma o shippi g th ough the St ait of Ho muz.
Mea while, the 60-day Memo a dum of U de sta di g (MoU) e ds o Mo day. The memo was a sig ed commitme t f om both the US a d I a fo fu the talks to each a fi al ag eeme t.
Oma , which says it is a eut al cou t y i this co flict, has suffe ed a umbe of st ikes f om I a si ce the co flict b oke out. Howeve , it is ow playi g a ole i egotiati g with I a to eope the st ait.
Si ce the US a d Is ael attacked I a i Feb ua y, Teh a has la gely blocked the vital wate way – th ough which about a fifth of the wo ld’s oil a d liquefied atu al gas usually passes. Reope i g it has bee a key poi t of discussio .
Washi gto has pu sued its ow effo ts to secu e the eope i g. Fox epo te T ey Yi gst quoted T ump as sayi g: “If Oma gets i the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them.”
A IRGC spokesma de ied T ump’s claim, which was made i the same i te view, that the US was i volved i backcha el egotiatio s with the IRGC – which is a majo milita y, political a d eco omic fo ce i I a .
A spokesma told semi-official I a ia ews age cy Tas im News: “The e a e o talks taki g place betwee IRGC officials a d the Ame ica s, a d this lie by T ump is me ely fa tasies caused by the delusio s a d ightma es he has suffe ed as a esult of defeat a d despe atio i the wa .”
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T ump made his th eat to Oma afte I a said ea lie o Mo day that the two sides had eached a ag eeme t fo ships to t avel th ough the st ait.
Fo eig mi ist y spokesma Esmaeil Baghaei told epo te s i Teh a “a u de sta di g has bee eached ega di g the map of the t a sit oute”.
I his stateme t, epo ted by the BBC’s US pa t e CBS News, Baghaei said both sides would fi alise the details befo e issui g a joi t stateme t. Oma has p eviously desc ibed these talks as positive.
Ea lie this mo th, I a ia Fo eig Mi iste Abbas A aghchi said a full eope i g depe di g o I a eceivi g compe satio f om the US fo what Teh a desc ibed as violatio s of the MoU.
Reute s – citi g a I a ia official – p eviously epo ted that Teh a was seeki g fees of betwee 5% a d 7% of the p ice of ca goes f om vessels who t avel th ough it.
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While T ump said i his call with Fox that he had a di ect backcha el with the IRGC, he said he was i o hu y to b i g a wa to a close.
“They’ e good poke playe s, but they’ e dyi g,” he was quoted as sayi g. “I have o time schedule. I’m ot i a hu y.”
The p eside t also st essed the upcomi g Novembe midte m electio s i the US had ” othi g to do with my thi ki g”. He also a gued the US had o issues with its stockpiled weapo s bei g depleted si ce the wa b oke out, a gui g “what we’ve used is pea uts”.
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The MoU, sig ed o 18 Ju e, aimed to b i g both sides to a pe ma e t ceasefi e but tempo a y peace fell apa t ot lo g late afte both sides bega t adi g st ikes.
O 8 July, T ump decla ed the ceasefi e was “ove “.
As the ceasefi e ea ed its fo mal expi y o Mo day, T ump also posted o his T uth Social etwo k to say: “The umbe o e goal is, a d always will be, that I a ca ot have, i a y way, shape, o fo m, a uclea weapo .”
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