“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw
Mar 31, 2025
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LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY and the GLOBAL RISKS & CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW
In My Opinion:
Donald Trump to Iran: “It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.”
Is Trump trying to start a war, not only in the Iran and the Middle East, but an attack on the United States? This is not leadership from America, nor does it have anything to do with diplomacy nor “the art of the deal”, which, by the way, his book of the same name was actually written in 1987 by a ghost writer named Tony Schwartz.
If you want to hear what Mr. Schwartz has to say about Trump and “The Art of the Deal”, you can easily Google his name . . .
Trump is little more than a grown-up grade-school playground bully, and a wannabe “tough-guy” dictator style world leader. He likes to talk down to those nations he feels are inferior to his view of America and rub elbows with leaders like Putin, but he is rapidly turning the USA into a country worse than any 3rd world nation on the planet, and he is clearly dangerous to all nations everywhere, including, most importantly, our own. He can start WWIII, better named “armageddon”, all by himself with his own stubby finger on the nuclear football button unless that “freedom” is taken away from him by Congress with some help. It should have been the best last act of President Joe Biden! ~llaw
Trump threatens bombing if Iran does not make nuclear deal
By Doina Chiacu and David Ljunggren
March 30, 20256:52 PM PDT
Trump threatens Iran with bombing, tariffs, if no nuclear deal reached
- Summary
- Trump threatens Iran with bombs, tariffs if no nuclear deal
- Iran has rejected direct negotiations with U.S.
- Trump says he will wait “a couple of weeks” before deciding on tariffs
WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Sunday with bombing and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program.
In Trump’s first remarks since Iran rejected direct negotiations with Washington last week, he told NBC News that U.S. and Iranian officials were talking, but did not elaborate.
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“If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing,” Trump said in a telephone interview. “It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.”
“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,” he added.
Iran sent a response through Oman to a letter from Trump urging Tehran to reach a new nuclear deal, saying its policy was to not engage in direct negotiations with the United States while under its maximum pressure campaign and military threats, Tehran’s foreign minister was quoted as saying on Thursday.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian reiterated the policy on Sunday. “Direct negotiations (with the U.S.) have been rejected, but Iran has always been involved in indirect negotiations, and now too, the Supreme Leader has emphasized that indirect negotiations can still continue,” he said, referring to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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In the NBC interview, Trump also threatened so-called secondary tariffs, which affect buyers of a country’s goods, on both Russia and Iran. He signed an executive order last week authorizing such tariffs on buyers of Venezuelan oil.
Speaking to reporters later on Sunday on Air Force One, Trump said he is going to make a decision on the secondary tariffs based on whether Tehran makes a deal.
“We’ll probably give it a couple of weeks and if we don’t see any progress, we’re going to put them on. We’re not putting them on right now. But if you remember, I did that six years ago, and it worked very well,” he said.
In his first 2017-21 term, Trump withdrew the U.S. 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 U.S. sanctions. Since then, the Islamic Republic has far surpassed the agreed limits in its escalating program of uranium enrichment.
Tehran has so far rebuffed Trump’s warning to make a deal or face military consequences.
Western powers accuse Iran of having a clandestine agenda to develop nuclear weapons capability by enriching uranium to a high level of fissile purity, above what they say is justifiable for a civilian atomic energy program.
Tehran says its nuclear program is wholly for civilian energy purposes.
Reporting by Doina Chiacu and David Ljunggren in Washington; Elwely Elwelly and Parisa Hafezi in Dubai; Andrea Shalal aboard Air Force One; Editing by Humeyra Pamuk and Stephen Coates
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