The U.S. will hit Iran "extremely hard" and intends to "bomb them back into the Stone Age," he claimed and made it clear that the coming weeks will be a period of further increased military pressure on Tehran.
At the same time, he noted that discussions are ongoing. Regime change was never Washington's official goal, he emphasized, but according to him, it has actually already happened because "all their original leaders are dead."
Earlier that day, he wrote on Truth Social that Iran allegedly asked the U.S. for a ceasefire, adding that he was ready to consider it only after the Strait of Hormuz is reopened. Until then, the U.S. is "turning Iran into nothing" and "bombing them back into the Stone Age," Trump wrote.
This statement came the very next day after Trump suggested that the U.S. could end the war with Iran within two to three weeks.
The Iranian president asked the United States for a ceasefire, Trump wrote on his Truth Social earlier on April 1, but Washington will only consider this issue after the Strait of Hormuz is opened. The Iranian Foreign Ministry later denied Trump's words.
A third American aircraft carrier, the USS George HW Bush, along with its escort ships, departed for the Middle East, it became known on March 31. Information earlier appeared in the media that the U.S. might be preparing to conduct a ground operation in Iran.
Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei agreed to negotiations with the U.S., the Israeli publication Ynet reported on March 24. This contrasted with Tehran's earlier stance, as the Iranian Foreign Ministry had previously rejected claims of direct talks and called statements about a "productive dialogue" untrue.
Nevertheless, the U.S. pushed forward, sending a 15-point plan to end the Middle East war to Iran via Pakistan, The New York Times wrote on March 25, citing diplomatic sources. General provisions of the American plan concern Iran's ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs, the interlocutors stated.