- By Surarika Das
- Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:47 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
The United States President Donald Trump said on Monday that he does not care if Tehran comes back to negotiations with him after talks to reach an agreement failed in Pakistan. Addressing a press conference at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, Trump said, "I don't care if they come back or not. If they don't come back, I'm fine."
The US President added that Iran's military suffered severe drawbacks during the war and it is almost "gone."Trump claimed that Iran's capability to manufacture missiles and drones is "largely defeated." The MAGA chief then slammed Tehran for its failure to "honour its commitments" over the Strait of Hormuz, asserting that the US will open the critical waterway.
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"We’ve been very nice. We haven’t ripped down too many bridges. We did it only because they broke their word; they broke their promise," Trump said. "Their promise was that they were going to open the Hormuz Strait. They didn’t do it. They lied."
‘Very Disappointed In NATO’
Furthermore, Trump mentioned that he was "very disappointed in NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation), as the nations in the agreement was not there for us. I think that is going to be under very serious examination."
Donald Trump also told the reporters that the US Navy would block the Strait of Hormuz on Monday at 10 am ET and also added that Tehran would not be able to sell oil, which will turn out to be "very effective."
Previously, Trump claimed that the main reason peace talks had failed in Pakistan was the regime's refusal to give up on its nuclear ambitions.
"In many ways, the points that were agreed to are better than us continuing our military operations to their conclusion, but all of those points don’t matter compared to allowing nuclear power to be in the hands of such volatile, difficult, unpredictable people," Trump explained.
A 21-hour long talk had taken place between the US and Iran in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday, but they were unable to break the impasse. Despite Washington's "final and best" offer, the US delegation's leader, JD Vance, stated they were unable to come to an agreement. Although he did not go into great detail, Vance stated that the US needs assurances that Iran will not pursue nuclear weapons.
Following the failure of the first round of discussions between the US and Iran, Trump declared on Monday that the US Navy will close the Strait "effective immediately," stopping all ships from entering or leaving Iranian ports.
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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reacted to the blockade by calling it "maximalism" and accusing the US of "shifting goalposts" during the negotiations in Islamabad last week. "Zero lessons learned," he said in his social media statement.