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Trump Threatens Iran While U.S. Negotiations Continue in Switzerland

Trump Threatens Iran While U.S. Negotiations Continue in Switzerland

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US President Donald Trump threatened to strike Iran if the country failed to prevent Hezbollah from "causing trouble," while diplomatic talks between senior US and Iranian officials commenced in Switzerland. The recent memorandum of understanding, signed Wednesday, calls for a cessation of hostilities on all fronts, including Lebanon.

Donald Trump
Republican Party
1. You close it and you won't have a country. You won't even make it back to your f**king country.
2. We may take over the strait, if we have to. If they don't make a deal, we'll collect tolls.
3. Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble. If they don't, we'll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder!!!
James David Vance
Republican Party
1. Trump is committed to seeing a full regional ceasefire..
2. There, of course, are going to be sometimes disagreements about precisely how to get there, but I actually feel great about where we are in Lebanon. There's still some additional wood to chop, but we're going to keep on working.
3. The opening of the Strait of Hormuz, the ending of the Iranian nuclear programme – all of these things have been accomplished.
4. We've seen great progress over the last couple of days in ensuring the ceasefire in Lebanon holds.
5. Outside the last few months, never before have the Iranian and American leadership met at such a high level.
6. He is of course great military leader but I think he's shown himself to be a great diplomat and of course who's an amazing friend of the United States of America. But it has been also an important part of getting us to this point.
7. And I think part of the misalignment here is that in the Pakistani and Qatari systems, they don't quite have the First Amendment and freedom of the press. And so there isn't this expectation that the text is going to be out there for the American people to actually interrogate and look at and analyze and understand for themselves.
8. So first of all, we actually really want to get this out because it's hard to have the conversation without the full text.
9. We look forward to transform the Middle East instability through diplomacy and promote peace, as well as free flow of oil.
10. The question before us now is how much more can we accomplish together? Can we turn over a new leaf? Can we change relations in the Middle East permanently? Or do we go back to doing things the old way, which is not our preference, but it's certainly very much something that can happen.
11. I have joked that I have two very, very important people in my life. An Indian and a Pakistani. The Indian is my wife, and the Pakistani is Field Marshal Munir.
John Cornyn
Republican Party
1. Iran's ability to withstand sanctions so far exposes a hard fact for Washington: economic pressure has largely failed to cow rogue regimes, as they game out more ways to sidestep US restrictions.
Ted Cruz
Republican Party
1. History demonstrates that giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is an exceptionally bad idea.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
Iranian National Security Council
1. They would do better to be careful with their statements; our armed forces are ready to respond to them in a different manner. No matter what they say, we are the ones who act.
2. Don't they think that if their threats had any effect, they would not have reached today's state of desperation? We do not take American threats into account.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Government
1. And with regard to Iran: whatever political developments may unfold, I will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. As long as I serve as prime minister of Israel, that will not happen.
2. We will remain in the security zone in southern Lebanon for as long as necessary to protect the cherished residents of the north and all the citizens of Israel... Nothing will alter that commitment.
Masoud Pezeshkian
Iranian Government
1. What is certain is that we will never back down from the right to enrich uranium, and the other side is also forced to accept it.
Chris Wright
US Department of Energy
1. What we're demonstrating to the Iranians is we can have flow of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz with or without them.

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