“I am in no hurry, our Military is rebuilt, new, and ready to go, by far the best in the world. Sanctions are biting & more added last night,” Trump said, adding that Tehran would not be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons. He said Iran is “a much weakened nation today.”
The US withdrew last year from an international deal designed to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and has been reimposing sanctions on Tehran in a “maximum pressure” campaign to shape Iranian foreign policy, with the two countries now in an escalatory cycle.