U.S. President Donald Trump declared that he will impose additional economic sanctions on Iran.
In a televised address at the news briefing held at the White House, Trump did not give any details about the nature of further sanctions, though.
Trump said that Iran will never be allowed to have nuclear weapons and called on Europe to “break away from the remnants of the Iran nuclear deal”, which he called a “foolish” deal and had previously announced the US would abandon.
U.S. President said that there were no US casualties in the Iranian missile strikes on US facilities in Iraq last night. “Iran appears to be standing down,” he said.
U.S. President claimed that the time when Iran was destabilizing the world was over, and if Iran continued struggling with the civilized world, it would be defeated.
He said he didn’t want to use force, however, he said that “America’s strength, both military and economic, is the best deterrent.”
Donald Trump also described last week’s missile assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani as “decisive action to stop a ruthless terrorist”. “Last week we eliminated the world’s top terrorist,” he said at the White House.