Iran’s Mehr News Agency had reported that a draft deal includes a commitment from the U.S. to lift oil sanctions
Trump denies Iran’s account of deal terms, decries new drone attack: ‘Dishonorable people’
President Donald Trump on Friday insisted that the terms of a war-ending deal that have been circulating in Iranian state media “have NOTHING to do with the terms that were agreed to, in writing.”
Iran’s Mehr News Agency had reported that a draft deal includes a commitment from the U.S. to lift oil sanctions and that final negotiations will not begin until half of Iran’s frozen funds are released and a U.S. naval blockade ends. The deal also includes a pledge from Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days, among other points, Mehr reported.
“What they said, including their weak and pathetic statement on having a deal, bears no relation to the truth,” Trump said in an angry Truth Social post Friday morning, slamming the Iranians as “very dishonorable people to deal with.”
“With them, there is no such thing as dealing in good faith,” Trump wrote.
He also decried what he described as Iran’s “totally rebuffed Drone attack last night” against Indian ships that were leaving the Strait of Hormuz.
Earlier Friday, India’s Ministry of External Affairs summoned Jason Meeks, deputy mission chief at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, regarding “continuing attacks by U.S. naval forces on commercial vessels carrying Indian mariners in the Gulf of Oman.”
Those U.S. attacks have resulted in the loss of three Indian lives, according to the Indian ministry.
Trump, appearing to blame Iran for the latest incident involving Indian ships, wrote that the alleged drone attack was “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.”
“They better get their act together, and FAST!” the president wrote of Iran.