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President Trump on Monday demanded from Iran compensation for those who have died amid the conflict, after Tehran called for compensation for damages.
“I see that Representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran are asking for compensation for the damage done to them during the last five month Military Conflict (started because, THEY WILL NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON), even though it was never mentioned in any of our negotiations or meetings!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The president called it an “interesting idea” and said he would start “demanding compensation from Iran, for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts.”
He said the compensation would cover those killed in the USS Cole attack in October 2000, among others.
Trump also said compensation should be given to the families of the protesters who were killed in Iran “over the last 50 years, not to mention the 52,000 that have been killed in the last five months.”
The president said that, moving forward, the compensation requirement will be added to negotiations.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said over the weekend that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the U.S. “corrects its behavior,” CBS News reported.
New demands were issued in the statement by the council’s secretary, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, also the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The reported statement said that the U.S. must never threaten Iran again, must permanently end the war, lift the naval blockade and withdraw its military.
The U.S. must also “completely compensate” Iran for damages from the five-month-long war, lift sanctions and “unconditionally” release frozen assets.
Trump said Sunday that the U.S. is “only semi-negotiating” with Iran.
“We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money,” he told Axios in a phone interview.
He maintained that Iran “is in very bad shape”
There was an agreement negotiated last week between Iran and Oman about who would govern traffic through the strait, but not much has come from it. The deal said Iran would get partial control over incoming traffic, a point people view as a concession to Iran.
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