President Trump demanded that Iran compensate the United States and other countries affected by the ongoing conflict.
“I see that Representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran are asking for compensation for the damage done to them during the last five month Military Conflict (started because, THEY WILL NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON), even though it was never mentioned in any of our negotiations or meetings!” he wrote on Truth Social. “But it is an interesting idea because now I am likewise demanding compensation from Iran, for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts, for which they are famous, as led initially by General Soleimani, including the families of those killed on the USS Cole, and thousands of others killed in combat.”
“Additionally, compensation should be paid to the families of the hundreds of thousands of innocent protestors that Iran has killed over the last 50 years, not to mention the 52,000 that have been killed in the last five months,” he continued, noting that he has directed his representatives to “put this firmly into any, and all, future negotiations.”
In a subsequent post, Trump wrote, “Also, with respect to the Iran negotiations, Iran should be responsible for the damages and death caused to the people of Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza!”
President Trump told Axios on Sunday that the United States is “semi-negotiating” with Iran. “We are low-keying it,” he said. “We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money.”
Earlier this year, Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, demanded that Arab nations pay reparations to Iran for committing “internationally wrongful acts.”
Iravani proclaimed that the “conduct of those States in allowing their territories to be used by the aggressors against the Islamic Republic of Iran qualifies as an act of aggression,” and added that the states should “cease their internationally wrongful acts of allowing their territories to be used by the aggressors and, in certain instances, engaging in the commission of unlawful armed attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
