US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iran is being ‘hit hard’ by American forces and will be ‘ready very soon’ to finalise a nuclear agreement to halt the ongoing conflict.
‘They are being hit hard and they want to make a deal. But I say they are not ready to make a deal because every time they make one, they want to change it and everything else. They are not ready. They will be ready very soon,’ Trump said at a rally in Georgia.
The president travelled to the southern state after attending a ceremony at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where he received with full honours the remains of four US military personnel killed last week in Iranian attacks in Jordan and Iraq — the first fatalities since the ceasefire broke down.
Before the ceremony, Trump told reporters that the Islamic Republic would pay ‘dearly’ for the deaths of American soldiers, which now total 18 since the United States and Israel launched their offensive against Iran on 28 February.
Last month, Washington and Tehran signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a ceasefire, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and allow time for negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme. The truce collapsed, however, and the two countries have exchanged strikes over the past two weeks.
Trump has continued to downplay the severity of the situation, drawing comparisons between the war with Iran and the conflicts in Vietnam and Iraq, which dragged on for two decades and resulted in thousands of American casualties. Also on Wednesday, the president threatened to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure each time Tehran attacks shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, as clashes between the two countries continue.
‘From this point forward, every time the Islamic Republic of Iran fires at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether with a missile, a rocket, a drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy a bridge or a power plant,’ Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
The threat follows the 11th consecutive night of US air strikes against Iran, which the Pentagon said targeted aircraft hangars and drone storage facilities. In response, Iran launched missiles against the city of Aqaba in Jordan, near the border with Israel.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard vowed to continue retaliatory strikes, while the Tehran government maintains its grip on the Strait of Hormuz dispute — a waterway through which, in peacetime, approximately one-fifth of the world’s traded oil and gas passes.
Meanwhile, Iranian Interior Ministry spokesman Ali Zeinivand said that ‘diplomacy has not been suspended’ and that messages continue to be exchanged between the parties despite the military escalation.
Source: Diário Económico
Original article: https://www.diarioeconomico.co.mz/2026/07/23/mundo-en/trump-diz-que-irao-estara-pronto-em-breve-para-acordo-nuclear-que-trave-conflito/
