The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has warned this Wednesday that he is willing to order new attacks against Iran, while reiterating that Tehran must stamp its signature without further delay on the agreement that both parties have been discussing for weeks and which, as he has stressed, is already practically finalized.
"Yesterday we hit them hard and we are going to hit them hard again today," the US leader said in statements to the press from the Oval Office, where he reviewed the latest events in Iran after the exchange of attacks in recent days between the United States and Iran, reprisals that have become the biggest escalation of the conflict since April.
"I've been working on this for several months and they should sign the deal. It's a good deal. In fact, it doesn't give them the right to have nuclear weapons; on the contrary, it totally prohibits them from having nuclear weapons," Trump indicated, stressing that the purpose of the talks is "very simple": Iran "cannot have a nuclear weapon, and it will not have one," something that, according to the US president, Tehran has already accepted.
In this context, the White House tenant has lashed out at what he considers delaying tactics by the Islamic Republic, after remarking that the text "is completely negotiated" and that only its formalization remains.
"We have a fully negotiated deal. But they keep stringing us along. And I said, 'Okay, let's give them a couple more chances' because it's an important document," he said.
Trump also defended that the document promoted by his administration implies "real consequences," unlike the agreement reached by former President Barack Obama a decade ago. "It was one of the worst and most absurd documents I have ever seen," he said in reference to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The recent clashes between Washington and Tehran are occurring in parallel with the "final stretch" of talks with the Asian country to close a peace agreement to end the conflict in the Middle East, a goal that Trump has been insisting on for weeks, although negotiations have not yet been definitively concluded.