WASHINGTON, June 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) – President Donald Trump, said that, the United States would impose major additional sanctions against Iran on Monday (tomorrow).
“We are putting major additional Sanctions on Iran on Monday,” Trump tweeted, without providing any details.
“Iran cannot have Nuclear Weapons!” he stressed.
Before leaving for Camp David earlier in the day, Trump told reporters that, additional sanctions would be moving forward against Iran, with some being implemented “slowly” and some “more rapidly.”
Asked if military action is still on the table, he said, “It’s always on the table until we get this solved.”
In response, Iran military warned the United States against the mistake of taking military actions on Iran, saying, any attack would draw Tehran’s “crushing response and cost the U.S. dearly,” Tasnim News Agency reported.
Trump on Friday confirmed that he authorised the military strikes against Iran, in retaliation for downing a U.S. military drone but called off the operations 10 minutes before they were to be implemented.
Trump noted that the potential casualties of the impending strikes, which might be 150 people, are “not proportionate” to the loss of a U.S. unmanned aircraft.
The U.S. military confirmed that an RQ-4 Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile system, at approximately 2335 GMT on Wednesday. Iran claimed the drone downed in the southern part of the country had crossed Iranian borders.
This incident further inflamed the ongoing tensions between Washington and Tehran, which have been on the rise since the attack on two oil tankers last week, in the Gulf of Oman, as well as, Iran’s threats of not complying with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.– NNN-AGENCIES
