Posted on 03/30/2025 11:06:27 AM PDT by bitt
"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," Trump also said
President Donald Trump issued a warning to Iran if it fails to reach an agreement with the U.S. regarding its nuclear program. I
"If they don't make a deal, there will be bombing," he said on Sunday during an interview with NBC News.
He also signaled he would take further economic measures if necessary.
"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," he said.
Iran has rejected direct negotiations with the U.S. over its nuclear ambitions.
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Iran, why are you doing this to yourselves? Back off from the nukes!
Joe Biden left his curses on the world. Iran with nuclear weapons is just one.
A good way to end this presidency. Foreign wars will do it.
“If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing,”
Iran has enough U-235 for at least a dozen bombs.
Since we don’t know the exact amount, Iran could smuggle in enough U-235 to vaporize most of NW DC.
Since the end of the Vietnam war, every US president has commited to large military operations in the Middle East.
I’m happy that Trump is preparing to respect good old US presidential traditions.
Oh man - it would be funnier if not so true
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It is either he remove the Nuclear capability of Iran or IRAN will end us!!!
May God be WITH YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP... You are a man of COURAGE like none I've ever seen in my lifetime. And I am a Senior Citizen!!
President Trump’s options are more limited, this go-round. Iran has pivoted such that at least 90% of their crude oil exports now go to China. That means that sanctions won’t affect Iran much. If the US bombs Iran’s oil export infrastructure, China will be seriously hacked off, and global oil prices would jump unless the Saudis and their friends raise output. We probably don’t need the problem of high oil prices, right now.
We “can” hit Iranian nuke sites, and likely would coordinate with the Israelis, but that leaves the problem that Iran might try to respond asymetrically, say, by heavy missile and drone attacks against Saudi oil infrastructure. That won’t hurt US much, but it’s a big blow to many of our allies across the world, and would certainly spike oil prices. Trump needs that like a hole in the head. We can try to defend the Saudi’s oil infrastructure, but, that’s a pretty big endeavor, and would require at least a 95% success rate. That’s not an easy proposition.
A better approach might be to go after the nuke sites AND do a demo demolition of a couple Iranian refineries, with a warning that Iranian retaliation against the Saudis will get them ALL of Iran’s refineries, refined product storage, and refined product import terminals, demolished. This is literally a threat of a death sentence for Iran’s economy: Iran struggles to produce enough refined products for its domestic consumption anyway, sometimes having to import fuels, and no sizable country can function without fuels. This would also be quite hard on Iran’s populace. :-(
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