The American President stated today that the United States demands compensation for decades of attacks by Tehran abroad and against protesters on Iranian soil.
Donald Trump indicated, through his Truth Social platform, that the demand for compensation will be “made firmly” in any negotiations, in response to Iranian authorities, who conditioned an agreement on the passage of commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz on the payment of reparations by Washington.
“Iran is demanding compensation for the damages suffered during the five months of military conflict,” the American leader wrote, noting that the matter had not been discussed “in any of the negotiations or meetings.”
The United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding in June that provided for an immediate ceasefire in the war that began on February 28 with an Israeli-American air offensive, and the opening of a two-month period of negotiations to reach a definitive peace agreement.
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Hostilities have since resumed, and Middle East mediating countries have been trying to bring the parties back to dialogue, centered on lifting Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and the United States’ blockade of Iranian ports, on Iran’s nuclear program, and on ending sanctions against the Islamic Republic, which also demands reparations for the destruction caused during the five months of air attacks.
The American President referred to the claim for compensation as an “interesting idea,” provided it is reciprocal.
“Likewise, I also demand reparations from Iran for all the people they killed and injured,” he stated, including “the families of those who died on the ‘USS Cole,'” an American warship struck in an attack in 2000 in Yemen.
Donald Trump added that reparations should also be paid “to the families of the hundreds of thousands of innocent protesters that Iran has killed over the past fifty years, not to mention the 52,000 dead over the past five months.”
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Shortly afterward, in another post, the White House leader stated that Iran should also be held responsible “for the damage and deaths caused in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Gaza,” alluding to the activities of armed groups allied with Tehran.
These demands from the American leader further threaten the success of a quick agreement on the Strait of Hormuz, which already seemed quite unlikely given that Iran demands Washington accept all of its conditions to lift the blockade on traffic through that waterway, which ensured the passage of 20% of the world’s oil goods before the war.
Tehran argues that the United States must “finally put an end to the war and aggression” against the Islamic Republic and its allies, including in Yemen and Iraq, suspend the blockade on Iranian ports, “fully compensate Iran for the damage caused” by the hostilities, suspend sanctions against the Iranian economy, alongside the unfreezing of assets abroad.
On Sunday, Donald Trump suggested that he needed neither a major military offensive nor a special diplomatic effort, stating that it was enough to observe Iran’s economic difficulties.
