WASHINGTON: The US and Iran aren’t at the moment in talks to finish the struggle as Washington focuses on pressuring Tehran economically, however all choices stay “on the desk”, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated in an interview with Fox Information on Thursday (Aug 27).
“What President Trump’s primary purpose has been and can at all times be is to make sure that Iran can by no means acquire a nuclear weapon. Interval. And so we have had Operation Epic Fury to destroy their navy. Now we’ve Operation Financial Outcast to destroy their financial system,” Leavitt instructed the Fox & Mates program.
“No negotiations are occurring proper now, and this may proceed till the president feels that possibly they arrive to the desk in a significant method. We’ve got not seen that but,” she stated.
“He after all continues to retain all choices on the desk, and the naval blockade continues to be in impact as nicely.”
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had warned international locations on Monday to chop their monetary ties with Iran or face secondary sanctions as a part of what had been billed as “financial D-Day”, however the Treasury Division stopped wanting really imposing penalties.
Qatar’s prime minister visited Tehran on Thursday in a bid to relaunch diplomacy after the US and Iran traded recriminations over Washington’s promise to increase economic pressure, a transfer one Iranian official described as “all-out financial struggle”.
