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Donald Trump vows to 'make Iran great again' as MPs chant 'death to America'


Donald Trump says he wants to "make Iran great again" - but Iranian lawmakers chanted "Death to America" during a Parliamentary session.

Tehran has accused America of being a "real life terrorist" as tensions heighten between the two countries.

On Saturday Trump said he plans to impose fresh sanctions on Iran - but that he wanted to make a deal to bolster its flagging economy.

It comes two days after an Iranian missile destroyed a US Global Hawk surveillance drone - an incident that Washington said happened in
international airspace.

The US has blamed Iran for attacks on two oil tankers last week in the Gulf of Oman and on four tankers off the United Arab Emirates on May 12.

Trump later said he had called off a military strike to retaliate because it could have killed 150 people.

Iran has said it will respond firmly to any threat against it.

Parliament's deputy speaker Masoud Pezeshkian said: "America is the real terrorist in the world by spreading chaos in countries, giving advanced weapons to terrorist groups, causing insecurity, and still it says 'Come, let's negotiate.'"

And many lawmakers then chanted: "Death to America."

Trump has said that although he favours sanctions, military action was "always on the table".

"We will call it 'Let's make Iran great again,'" Trump said.

He later wrote on Twitter from Camp David: "We are putting major additional Sanctions on Iran on Monday.

"I look forward to the day that Sanctions come off Iran, and they become a productive and prosperous nation again."

Both Trump and Tehran have said they are not seeking a war, but Iran has warned of a "crushing" response if attacked.

"Regardless of any decision they (U.S. officials) make... we will not allow any of Iran's borders to be violated.

"Iran will firmly confront any aggression or threat by America," Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi told the semi-official Tasnim
news agency on Saturday.

The two nations have disputed where the drone was.

Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, published a map on Twitter with detailed coordinates which he said showed the drone was flying over the Islamic Republic's territorial waters.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-...-iran-16835051

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President Donald Trump warned the United States may launch a devastating military attack on Iran unless it comes to the negotiating table and drops its bid to develop nuclear weapons.

“I'm not looking for war and if there is, it'll be obliteration like you've never seen before. But I'm not looking to do that. But you can't have a nuclear weapon. You want to talk? Good. Otherwise you can have a bad economy for the next three years,” Trump said during an interview with NBC’s “Meet The Press“ airing Sunday.

The president said he’d be willing to sit down with Iranian officials without any pre-conditions.

The comments, made during an interview taped Friday, came the same day Trump confirmed on Twitter that he called off a retaliatory strike on Iran at the last minute Thursday night. He said he decided that the potential cost of human lives was “not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone.”

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Thursday it had shot down an American drone, claiming it had entered Iranian airspace, a claim disputed by the U.S., which has maintained the drone was over international waters. Both countries have since produced what they say is evidence supporting their positions.

Trump said the U.S. had a “modest but pretty, pretty heavy attack schedule,” however planes were not in the air when he called off the attack.

The commander-in-chief said the response now should be increased sanctions on Tehran’s economy.

“We're increasing the sanctions now,” adding the country’s economy has already been “shattered.”

Trump said he believes Iranian officials want to negotiate and that any deal would have to be about nuclear weapons. He also claimed that Iran had violated the nuclear agreement struck by the Obama administration and other world powers.

“They cannot have a nuclear weapon,” he said. “They cannot have a nuclear weapon. They'd use it. And they're not going to have a nuclear weapon.”

Trump also disputed that he sent a message to Iranian leaders through a third country, saying he did not want conflict, dubbing it “fake news.’

However, he also declined to send a message during the interview to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“Wouldn't be much different than that message,” Trump said.

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Putin must have given Trump a good talking to.

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