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'If they’re not behaving...': Trump issues BIG warning to Iran amid disagreements on nuclear inspection, Hormuz

'If they’re not behaving...': Trump issues BIG warning to Iran amid disagreements on nuclear inspection, Hormuz

US President Donald Trump Photograph: (AFP)

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Trump warned that Washington would take action if Iran fails to honour its agreement with the United States. Speaking to reporters, Trump said Tehran had been significantly weakened by recent conflict and no longer held meaningful leverage over Washington.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (June 23) once again warned Iran saying that it would respond if Iran failed to honour its agreement signed last week. This comes after Iran closed Strait of Hormuz amid Israel's action on Hezbollah and Tehran disagreed with US Vice President JD Vance's statement on nuclear inspection. Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed an interim US-Iran deal last week, more than three months after the US and Israel attacked Iran. Trump also said that Iran was supposed to use the money being unfrozen to buy food exclusively from the United States.

“If Iran doesn’t live up to their agreement, or if they’re not behaving, I will do what I have to do," Trump told reporters when asked about the future of the understanding reached between the two countries. "All that money's coming back in the form of purchases of food which they desperately need. They have 91 million people, they can't feed them. So, the money that we lift is going to go to our farmers," Trump asserted. Earlier, Trump wrote on Truth Social that Iran would agree to extensive weapons inspections as part of efforts to ensure what he called “nuclear honesty” in the years ahead. “Everybody is fully aware that Iran will agree to have Major Weapons Inspections to ensure ‘Nuclear Honesty’ long into the future,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

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On June 14, Iran and the United States announced a 14-point understanding and signed an interim deal in Switzerland. The arrangement was aimed at ending the four-month conflict, reopening the Strait of Hormuz and establishing a framework for future nuclear negotiations. The memorandum officially took effect on June 18 after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and US President Donald Trump signed it electronically. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) that Tehran had not negotiated its nuclear programme and had not accepted any additional obligations during the talks. Baghaei said cooperation with the IAEA would continue “under the current procedures.” He added that Iran's engagement with the agency would proceed “in accordance with Iran’s obligations under safeguard agreements” and “in line with resolutions passed by Parliament and decisions of the Supreme National Security Council.”

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Navashree Nandini works as a senior sub-editor and has over five years of experience. She writes about global conflicts ranging from India and its neighbourhood to West Asia to the...Read More

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