Trump slams Iran over Strait of Hormuz, nuclear stance after marathon talks
United States President Donald Trump
Abdullateef Fowewe
United States President Donald Trump has accused Iran of failing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and vowed it will never get nuclear weapons, following a grueling 20-hour meeting in Islamabad.
Trump, briefed by VP JD Vance, envoy Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, praised Pakistan’s Asim Munir and Shehbaz Sharif for hosting.
He credited himself with averting a war with India that could have killed “30 to 50 million lives.”
On the Strait, Trump wrote, “Iran promised to open the Strait of Hormuz, and they knowingly failed to do so. They better begin the process of getting this INTERNATIONAL WATERWAY OPEN AND FAST! Every Law in the book is being violated by them.”
Iran’s reps – Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Abbas Araghchi, and Ali Bagheri – were “friendly and respectful,” Trump said, but unyielding on nukes.
“IRAN IS UNWILLING TO GIVE UP ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS!… IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!” he vowed.
Trump called other agreements positive but secondary “in many ways, the points that were agreed to are better than us continuing our Military Operations to conclusion, but all of those points don’t matter compared to allowing Nuclear Power to be in the hands of such volatile, difficult, unpredictable people.”
