President Donald Trump is demanding that Iran compensate Americans killed or seriously wounded in attacks he blames on Tehran, as well as payments to the families of Iranian protesters killed by the regime.
Trump’s Demands
Trump’s remarks came after senior Iranian officials demanded compensation from Washington as part of Tehran’s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The president also said he had instructed his representatives to raise his compensation demands in any future negotiations with Iran.
Trump called Iran’s request for compensation ‘an interesting idea’ before saying he was also demanding compensation from Iran ‘for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts, for which they are famous, as led initially by General Soleimani, including the families of those killed on the USS Cole, and thousands of others killed in combat.’
Additionally, Trump said compensation should be paid to the families of the hundreds of thousands of innocent protesters that Iran has killed over the last 50 years, not to mention the 52,000 that have been killed in the last five months.
Original reporting: Fox News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
