Trump: US Ready to Make Real Deal with Iran

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US President Donald Trump claimed that Washington is ready to make a "real deal" with Iran over the country’s nuclear program, a significant retreat from his blustery rhetoric just days after he threatened the Islamic Republic with incredible hardships.

“Iran is not the same country anymore, that I can say,” Trump said Tuesday during a speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] national convention in the US state of Missouri. “And we’ll see what happens, but we’re ready to make a real deal, not the deal that was done by the previous administration, which was a disaster.”

Trump announced on May 8 that Washington was walking away from the nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA], signed between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries in 2015, and that he planned to reinstate US nuclear sanctions on Iran and impose "the highest level" of economic bans on Tehran.

Trump on Monday threatened Iran with hardship “the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before.”

The US president resorts to threatening rhetoric against Iran, just hours after President Rouhani warns him against "playing with the lion's tail."

Trump's pugnacious message on his official Twitter account in all capital letters late Sunday came after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's warning to him not to “twist the lion’s tail” after the US unveiled a series of anti-Iran measures.

Rouhani said the United States should know that peace with Iran will be the mother of all peace while war with the country will be the mother of all wars.

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