US President Donald Trump said Friday that he is ready to use the U.S. military to resume strikes on Iran if peace talks in Pakistan are not successful, The Hill reports.
“We have a reset going. We’re loading up the ships with the best ammunition, the best weapons ever made — even better than what we did previously and we blew them apart,” Trump told the New York Post.
“But we’re loading up the ships. We’re loading up the ships with the best weapons ever made, even at a higher level than we use to do a complete decimation,” he said.
No deal, he said, will lead to the weapons being use “very effectively.”
Vice President Vance is traveling to Islamabad on Friday with special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner to try and come to a final agreement with Iran after a two-week ceasefire deal was struck earlier this week.
Trump said “we’re going to find out in about 24 hours” if the talks were successful. The White House said the first round of discussions is set for Saturday local time.
Trump on Truth Social a short time after the interview was criticizing the Iranians, saying they “don’t seem to realize they have no cards other than a short term extortion of the World by using International Waterways.”
The Iranian side of the negotiations will be represented by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, whose defiance of the U.S. has been steadfast.
“You’re dealing against people that we don’t know whether or not they tell the truth,” Trump told the Post.
“To our face, they’re getting rid of all nuclear weapons, everything’s gone. And then they go out to the press and say, ‘No, we’d like to enrich,’” he said. “So, we’ll find out.”
Vance told reporters as he was departing Friday that he was heading to the talks with “pretty clear guidelines” from the president, but he was hopeful they would be “positive.”
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