It’s eIther us or Iran, trump warns world
A timeline of what he said on Iran nuclear deal
tehran — US President Donald Trump warned the world against doing business with Iran on Tuesday as he hailed the “most biting sanctions ever imposed”, triggering a mix of anger, fear and defiance in Tehran.
“The Iran sanctions have officially been cast. These are the most biting sanctions ever imposed, and in November they ratchet up to yet another level,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States. I am asking for WORLD PEACE, nothing less.”
Within hours of the sanctions taking effect, German carmaker Daimler said it was halting its business activities in Iran. Trump’s May withdrawal from a landmark 2015 nuclear agreement had already spooked investors and triggered a run on the Iranian rial long before nuclear-related sanctions went back into force. “I feel like my life is being destroyed. Sanctions are already badly affecting people’s lives. I can’t afford to buy food, pay the rent,” said one construction worker on the streets of the capital.
The sanctions reimposed on Tuesday, which target access to US banknotes and key industries such as cars and carpets, were unlikely to cause immediate economic turmoil.
Iran’s markets were actually relatively buoyant, with the rial strengthening by 20 per cent since Sunday after the government relaxed foreign exchange rules and allowed unlimited, tax-free gold and currency imports. —
Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States. I am asking for WORLD PEACE, nothing less Donald Trump @realDonaldTrump
aug. 16, 2015
Trump, then Republican presidential frontrunner, said the nuclear accord with world powers will not prevent Iran from having a nuclear bomb.
mar 22, 2016
He said his “number one priority” is to dismantle the agreement. “This deal is catastrophic for Israel — for America, for the whole of the Middle East,” he said.
may 21, 2017
Trump calls on all countries to “isolate” Iran in a speech in Riyadh.“From Lebanon to Iraq to Yemen, Iran funds, arms and trains terrorists, militias and other extremist groups that spread destruction and chaos across the region,” he declares.
sept 19, 2017
The US president says that the nuclear accord is “an embarrassment to the United States” and “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.”
Jan. 1, 2018
Trump says it is “time for change” in Iran after days of deadly protests against the government in Tehran, along with economic difficulties and corruption.
may 8
Trump pulls the US out of the nuclear pact, reinstating Washington’s sanctions on Iran. Describing the deal as “defective at its core,” he says at the White House: “Today, we have definitive proof that this Iranian promise was a lie.” “Any nation that helps Iran in its quest for nuclear weapons could also be strongly sanctioned by the United States.”
July 22
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tells the US it should not “play with the lion’s tail” and warns any conflict with Iran would be the “mother of all wars”.
Trump responds with an allcaps Twitter tirade, warning “NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE.”
aug 6
Trump says he is “open” to a new Iran deal, while confirming a return to sanctions. “I remain open to reaching a more comprehensive deal that addresses the full range of the regime’s malign activities, including its ballistic missile program and its support for terrorism,” Trump says in a statement.