US President Donald Trump in a post on Truth Social said his representatives are going to Islamabad and will be there “tomorrow evening, for negotiations”.

He also claimed that Iran had violated the ceasefire agreement by firing at a French ship and a freighter from the United Kingdom.

The US president recalled that Iran recently announced that they were closing the Strait of Hormuz, which he said was “strange, because our BLOCKADE has already closed it”.

“They’re helping us without knowing, and they are the ones that lose with the closed passage, $500 Million Dollars a day! The United States loses nothing. In fact, many Ships are headed, right now, to the US, Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska, to load up, compliments of the IRGC, always wanting to be ‘the tough guy!’,” he added.

Trump insisted that the US was offering Iran “a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran”.

“NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy and, if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my Honour to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years. IT’S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END!” he said.

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