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BREAKING: Trump terminates any future negotiations with Iran.
BREAKING: Trump terminates any future negotiations with Iran.
The president has ordered his top envoys to completely halt all negotiations with Iran. A U.S. official confirmed that Washington has already begun informing allies that it is changing its entire strategy toward Tehran, according to CNN.
The real implication? Diplomacy is off the table for now. Trump is betting that the blockade and economic pressure will force Iran to blink harder than any negotiation ever could. Is he hiding a card? Maybe. Sources say the new strategy is to “strangle them over time.”
That could mean he is buying time for something bigger, or simply deciding that talks were never going to deliver what he wanted and choosing instead to punish Iran’s economy.
Trump himself put it bluntly on Truth Social: “There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
At the same time, a senior Iranian official told Reuters that the country is shifting from a defensive posture to a “fully offensive” one and is preparing for possible preemptive action if diplomacy remains dead.
The off-ramp has just been shut. Both sides are now choosing pressure over talks.