The US will not make a deal with Iran without unconditional surrender from Iran.
This is what US President Donald Trump wrote on his social media account Truth Social.
- There will be no deal with Iran without unconditional surrender!, writes the president.
The announcement comes after six days of US and Israeli attacks on Iran. For the same number of days, Iran has attacked a large number of countries in the Middle East - including Israel.
On the first day of the war - Saturday, February 28 - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in an Israeli attack in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Trump writes that a "great and acceptable" leader of Iran must be elected.
The US president already told the media outlets Axios and Reuters on Thursday that he would be personally involved in the selection of a new supreme leader for Iran.
The US, together with its allies and partners, will then work "tirelessly" to make Iran "economically bigger, better and stronger than ever before".
- Iran will have a great future.
- Make Iran great again, writes Trump on Truth Social.
Israel and the US were behind the first attacks in the ongoing war, after which Iran responded with attacks on, among others, Israel and the countries on the Arabian Peninsula, where the US has several military bases.
Up until the outbreak of the war, the US and Iran negotiated for a long period of time on a new nuclear agreement, and delegations from the two countries met several times in the weeks leading up to the first attacks in the Swiss city of Geneva.
Along the way, Trump threatened that the US would attack Iran if the country did not agree to a deal that would limit its nuclear program and prevent the development of a nuclear bomb.
This is the second time in less than a year that the US and Israel have attacked Iran. Israeli attacks on the country's nuclear power plants and military bases led to a 12-day war in June last year, in which the US became involved.
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