US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States does not need to reach an agreement with Iran, claiming that Washington has obtained hundreds of billions of dollars in Iranian funds and controls the Strait of Hormuz.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote: “We do not need a deal with Iran. Those days are long gone. We have their money, hundreds of billions of dollars, and we have their strait!”
On domestic matters, Trump said he had asked Vice President JD Vance to devote his full and undivided attention to what he described as widespread corruption and crime in cities and states across the United States governed by Democrats.
He added that so-called blue states, including Minnesota, California and Illinois, among many others, were poorly managed and represented disastrous examples of corruption. He claimed that billions of dollars were being stolen every month and that the federal budget could quickly be balanced by putting an end to what he described as large-scale criminal activity.
Trump also declared that “corruption runs in the blood of the Democratic Party’s leadership!”
The directive comes as Trump moves further away from the diplomatic track with Tehran, despite Vance having previously played a key role in negotiations that resulted in a 14-point memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran last June.
The memorandum had opened a 60-day window for negotiations aimed at reaching a final agreement to end the war in the Middle East. However, the deadline expired without an agreement being reached.
