Donald Trump is warning Iran that their leaders better strike a deal within 24 hours or he’ll unleash new waves of strikes on the nation.
‘We’re going to find out in about 24 hours. We’re going to know soon,’ Trump told the New York Post after dispatching Vice President JD Vance to Pakistan to lead peace talks.
‘We have a reset going. We’re loading up the ships with the best ammunition, the best weapons ever made – even better than what we did previously, and we blew them apart,’ he said.
‘And if we don’t have a deal, we will be using them, and we will be using them very effectively.’
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf suggested on Friday that talks aren’t going well.
He indicated in a post to X that peace talks should not start as disputes over three-day-old ceasefire terms continue.
On Thursday, Trump pressured Israel to slow down attacks on Lebanon as the strikes threatened to thwart peace talks with Iran.
‘We’re going to find out in about 24 hours. We’re going to know soon,’ Trump told the New York Post
The President admitted that he’d told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘to be sort of a little more low-key’ as Vance and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff lead negotiations in Islamabad this weekend.
US officials are worried, however, that with the already fragile days old ceasefire deal between Washington and Tehran, Israel’s campaign in Lebanon could endanger those talks before they even get started.
