President Donald Trump said late on Thursday that the US would begin using frozen Iranian assets to pay for ships and cargo damaged by regime strikes in and around the Gulf.<\/p>\n
“Please let this statement serve to represent, until further notice, that from this point forth, any and all damages done to Ships, Cargo, or anything related thereto, will be paid for by Iranian Money that the United States has in its possession, and controls,” Trump said on Truth social.<\/p>\n
“These damages may be very substantial but, nevertheless, this ithe fair and equitable thing to do.”<\/p>\n
Trump, in a speech, also declared that Iran \u201cneeds more pain\u201d before it will abandon its pursuit of a nuclear weapon, declaring the Islamic Republic has \u201cevil intentions\u201d and vowing it will \u201cnever\u201d be allowed to obtain one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said late on Thursday that the US would begin using frozen Iranian assets to pay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[671,38,102,2107,1747,101,225,77,80],"class_list":["post-220592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-hormuz","tag-iran-nuclear-programme","tag-iran-israel-conflict","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us-iran","tag-us-israel","tag-us-israel-iran-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116972845954830249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}