WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened Iran with bombings and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear programme.
In interview Trump said United States and Iranian officials were talking but did not elaborate.
“If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing,” Trump said. “But there’s a chance that if they don’t make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs on them like I did four years ago.”
In his first 2017-21 term, Trump withdrew the US from a 2015 deal between Iran and world powers that placed strict limits on Tehran’s disputed nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief.
Trump also reimposed sweeping US sanctions. Since then the Islamic Republic has far surpassed the agreed limits in its escalating programme of uranium enrichment.
Tehran has so far rebuffed Trump’s warning to make a deal or face military consequences.
