With the latest US ultimatum to Iran having already expired, Tehran says it will respond to Trump at the “appropriate time“.
According to Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baqai, the time for Tehran to respond to US President Donald Trump’s ultimatum has not yet come. “Iran will respond to the US proposal at the right time,” he said. “We are doing our job on our own terms. We are not interested in deadlines or timing,” he added.
This was preceded by a message from Ayatollah Mojdaba Khamenei via X, attacking the US saying: “America’s role is to sow insecurity. Wherever it has set foot, it has sown insecurity and brought misery to the peoples“. “That is precisely why America should be removed from West Asia and expelled from this region,” Mojdaba Khamenei stressed. “The one that should be removed is America – we belong here, the Persian Gulf is our home, West Asia is our home,” is the message conveyed via X by Iran’s supreme religious leader.
For his part, Donald Trump reportedly said he expects to receive a response from Iran “very soon.” He even estimated that “Iran also continues to have a strong interest in reaching an agreement.”
Of course, given that Sea of Hormuz remains essentially closed and has become a dangerous passage for global shipping, Donald Trump has, according to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, renewed his appeal for Georgia Meloni‘s assistance for military aid. “Italy Italy did not stand by us when we were in need. I have always helped Italy, as has my country,” US President Donald Trump told the Corriere della Sera newspaper. In this way, Donald Trump commented on Italy’s intention to send a minesweeper to the Sea of Hormuz after the end of the war.
Having, in fact, opened the can of worms with the withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany, the US president also threatened Italy. According to the Corriere della Sera newspaper, Donald Trump said he was “still considering the possibility of reducing the total number of US troops on Italian bases.”
