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U.S. President Donald Trump said connected Wednesday (June 17, 2026) that an interim accord with Iran was not last and that helium could resume a bombing run if helium did not similar it oregon if Tehran did not “behave”.
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“It’s a memorandum of understanding. And if I don’t similar it, we’ll spell backmost to shooting astatine them, dropping bombs connected their heads. If I don’t similar it, if they don’t behave, we’ll spell close backmost to dropping bombs close smack successful the mediate of their head, OK?” Mr. Trump said connected the sidelines of a G7 acme successful France.
Mr. Trump said the Iran memorandum of knowing did not see contiguous sanctions alleviation for Iran.
Mr. Trump heaped praise connected the model statement that his medication had negotiated, saying, “That’s a precise beardown deal. Nobody knows what it is, but it’s precise strong, and astir radical look to beryllium precise happy.”
He said the statement would beryllium a boon for markets.
“There’s thing truthful astute arsenic the market, and the marketplace loves it beyond thing that I’ve really seen,” helium said, adding: “The alternate would beryllium a worldwide depression.”
Oil prices were adjacent a three-month debased connected Wednesday, with Mr. Trump predicting further decreases: “I deliberation lipid prices mightiness get little than wherever they were earlier the war.”
‘Minor war’
Mr. Trump besides said that helium had spoken to Syria’s person astir combatting Iran-backed Hezbollah successful Lebanon, a time aft criticising Israel for sidesplitting excessively galore civilians and not getting the occupation done.
“I see that (Lebanon) the insignificant war; Iran’s a large one, but we person that small pinprick retired determination that perpetually rears its head, and that’s Hezbollah,” Mr. Trump told presspersons connected Tuesday.
Mr. Trump has powerfully backed Mr. Sharaa, a erstwhile al-Qaeda commandant who toppled long-ruling autocrat Bashar al-Assad and has sought to represent himself arsenic a mean person trying to unify his war-ravaged federation and extremity its isolation.
