President Donald Trump said Monday that future negotiations with Iran should include U.S. demands for compensation to Americans killed or wounded in attacks and conflicts he attributed to Tehran, responding to Iran’s call for restitution over damage from the five-month war.
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President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States should demand compensation from Iran for Americans killed and seriously wounded over decades, escalating a dispute over Tehran’s request that Washington pay for damage caused during the ongoing war.
Trump made the demand after Iranian representatives sought compensation for losses sustained during the five-month conflict between Iran and the United States.
“I see that Representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran are asking for compensation for the damage done to them during the last five month Military Conflict (started because, THEY WILL NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON), even though it was never mentioned in any of our negotiations or meetings!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Trump said Iran’s proposal prompted him to introduce a corresponding U.S. claim covering Americans he says were killed or wounded in attacks and conflicts connected to Tehran.
“But it is an interesting idea because 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,” Trump wrote.
The president also said compensation should extend to families of Iranians killed by the country’s government during protests over the past five decades.
“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. I have instructed my representatives to put this firmly into any, and all, future negotiations.”
The dispute comes as Washington and Tehran remain at odds over the terms of any broader agreement ending the conflict.
The war began in late February with joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Fighting later entered a nominal ceasefire that lasted for several weeks before negotiations broke down.
Trump has continued to seek an Iranian commitment that the country will never possess a nuclear weapon.
Tehran has so far been unwilling to provide that commitment, leaving the nuclear dispute and now competing compensation demands among the issues confronting future negotiations.
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