Trump does not care if Iran comes back to negotiate as US Navy set to block Iranian ports
發佈日期: 2026-04-13 21:22
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A few hours after US-Iran talks concluded without reaching an agreement Sunday, US Central Command announced that the US Navy would begin blocking Iranian ports beginning Monday of ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz. Although in the past hour, two tankers ladened with oil have been allowed to exit the Strait.
When US President Donald Trump was asked how long it might be before Iranian officials returned to the negotiating table amid a fragile ceasefire, Trump answered that he did not care if they came back or not.
Arriving back at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington DC President Donald Trump spoke to waiting reporters and did not hold back when asked about further US-Iran negotiations.
"Oh, I don't know. I don't care if they come back or not. If they don't come back, I'm fine. Their military is gone. Their missiles are largely depleted. The manufacturing capability for missiles and drones is largely defeated. We've been very nice. We haven't ripped down too many bridges. We did one only because they broke their word. They broke their promise. And remember, their promise was that they were going to open the Hormuz Strait. They didn't do it. They lied."
He also criticised Pope Leo after he said a "delusion for omnipotence" is fuelling the US-Israel war in Iran. "We don't like a pope that's going to say that it's okay to have a nuclear weapon, we don't want a pope that says crime is okay in our cities. I don't like it. I'm not a big fan of Pope Leo. He's a very liberal person and he's a man that doesn't believe in stopping crime. He is a man that doesn't think that we should be toying with a country that wants a nuclear weapon so they can blow up the world.' I'm not a fan of Pope Leo.
This as Ebrahim Aziz, head of the Parliament's National Security Commission of Iran said Sunday that US President Donald Trump's comments hours after the talks in Islamabad are "natural for a defeated president."
Aziz said "(Trump) is voicing his own wishes, his dreams and demands that have never been realised and by God's will, will not be realised. The statements he began making just hours after the talks, saying 'I'll do this' and 'I'll do that' in the Oman Sea and the distant waters of the Indian Ocean, are part of that. It is natural for a defeated president to speak this way."
Tel Aviv residents were not hopeful after the United States and Iran ended talks Sunday without an agreement to end the war, leaving a fragile two-week ceasefire in doubt.
Tel Aviv resident Adam Dreyfuss said "We'll have a long war, we'll have a long war. I think it's World War 3 but we'll win, That's what I think."
And resident Yoni Landau said "I live for now. The ceasefire may end tomorrow, may end in an hour."
Neither side have indicated what will happen after the 14-day ceasefire with Iran expires on April 22nd.
