Trump demands ‘compensation’ from Tehran for Americans killed by Iranian ‘roadside bombs’

“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,” said in a post on Truth Social. “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.”

The president concluded by stating that he has “instructed” his negotiating team to “put this firmly into any, and all, future negotiations.”

Since the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding collapsed in early July, the president has struggled to make substantive progress toward ending the war.

On Sunday, he told Axios that the U.S. is now “low-keying” the war, suggesting he is willing to allow Iran’s economic constraints to bring it back to the negotiating table in time.

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“We are only semi-negotiating with them,” the president said. “We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money. It will work out. It always works out. It’s like a chess game.”