U.S. President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Sunday to bash Tehran for not giving a substantive response to Washington’s pleace plan.
“Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!),” Trump said.
He added Tehran has been “laughing at our now GREAT AGAIN Country” but added: “They will be laughing no longer!”
Trump did not mention the response Iran reportedly sent to the U.S. regarding Washington’s proposals to end the war. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said his country had received the Iranian response but could not share any details. He did not say if the proposal has already been passed on to the US.
Earlier on Sunday Iran warned Britain and France that its military would launch “a decisive and immediate response” to any warships being sent to the Strait of Hormuz. “We remind them that both in times of war and in times of peace, only the Islamic Republic of Iran can establish security in this strait and it will not allow any country to interfere in such matters,” Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi posted on X.
President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said in Nairobi that France had “never envisaged” a naval deployment in the Strait of Hormuz but rather a security mission that would be “coordinated with Iran.” Macron, who is in Kenya for a summit in Nairobi, stressed at a press conference “There was never any question of a deployment but we are ready.”
France last week announced that its aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, had passed through the Suez Canal in preparation for what Paris described as an ad hoc mission co-led with the UK to deconflict the Iran crisis.
