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As Iran bids farewell to its former leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, US President Donald Trump has renewed his threats to attack the country if a deal is not reached soon. Indirect US-Iranian talks ended last week without any public sign of progress towards a lasting peace between the two nations, despite a 60-day truce meant to create space for diplomacy after US and Israeli strikes that sparked the conflict.
“We’re either going to make a deal or we’re going to get the job done. OK. And it’s not going to be hard to get the job done. I’d rather make a deal because I don’t want to affect 91 million people,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, according to Reuters.
“We can knock out their bridges in an hour, we can knock out their power supplies… They have no money now. We haven’t given them any money.”
Iran calls Trump’s threats ‘delusional’
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Minister Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr called Trump’s threat “delusional.” “Iranians do not know the language of threats. So speak to the Iranian people with respect or we will respond in another language,” Zolqadr said in comments reported by state media.
Mojtaba Khamenei did not show up at his father’s funeral
Iranians turned out in huge numbers to mourn their late leader in what has been described as a funeral comparable to that of Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989.
However, Mojtaba Khamenei continued his no-show at his father’s funeral. He has not been seen in public since before his appointment a week after his father’s death.
