President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing on Iran at the White House on Monday. On Wednesday, he announced that any country supplying weapons to Iran will face a 50% tariff. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday morning that any country supplying weapons to Iran will get a 50% tariff on goods sold to the United States.
“A Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed, on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately. There will be no exclusions or exemptions! President DJT,” the president said on Truth Social.
In a separate post, Trump said there will be “no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear ‘Dust.'”
He also said that the United States will work closely with Iran, “which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change!”
The two countries will discuss tariff and sanctions relief, he said.
On Tuesday, Trump announced a two-week cease-fire in the war, which also includes Israel, if Iran opens up the Strait of Hormuz.
The Iranian government listed the requirements of the deal, which include that Iran will control the Strait of Hormuz, all sanctions must be lifted from Iran, the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from the region, cessation of war on all fronts — including in Lebanon — and “payment of compensation to Iran.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said Trump accepted Iran’s plan as a general framework. Iran had rejected a 15-point plan from Washington earlier.
Trump called Iran’s plan “a workable basis” for negotiations. He said that they were in agreement on most points and the two-week cease-fire would “allow for the Agreement to be finalized and consummated.”
Araghchi said Iran has agreed to allow safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz during the two-week period.
“If attacks against Iran are halted, our Powerful Armed Forces will cease their defensive operations,” Araghchi said in a statement on behalf of the Supreme National Security Council.
Israel has continued to strike Lebanon and has rejected the provision that Lebanon be included in the cease-fire agreement.
“The two-week cease-fire does not include Lebanon,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during a press briefing at the Pentagon on Wednesday. Yesterday, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire, with the U.S. suspending bombing in Iran for two weeks if the country reopens the Straight of Hormuz. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
