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<\/p>\nPresident Donald Trump has said the interim peace agreement between the U.S. and Iran is “over” and branded the leaders of the regime in Tehran as “evil, sick people.” In comments made on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara in Turkey on Wednesday, Trump said he did not want to deal with Iranian officials anymore, labeling them “scum” and “liars,” and adding U.S. negotiators are “wasting their time.” His remarks came just hours after the United States launched strikes on Iran, in what Washington said was retaliation for attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday.<\/p>\n
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Iran had responded to the U.S. strikes with strikes on Bahrain and Kuwait, in a crossfire that seemingly raised the risk that the memorandum of understanding struck on June 17 to halt fighting in the war would break down. A ceasefire in the conflict was first set on April 8.<\/p>\n
Trump, asked by reporters about the ceasefire, had said “for me, I think it\u2019s over.”<\/p>\n
He then added: “It\u2019s just a waste of time dealing with them.” Along with his comments about Iran, Trump repeated his complaints he had made previously about NATO at the alliance summit for not helping the U.S. in the Iran war.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s comments have raised concerns about the fate of negotiations with Tehran that followed a ceasefire announced on June 14 and a memorandum of understanding (MOU) announced three days later.<\/p>\n
That ended fighting and reopened the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran had blockaded. Before the war, the strait was the transit point for one fifth of the world\u2019s hydrocarbons.<\/p>\n
However, both sides gave differing accounts of the fate of the waterway. The Trump administration had always insisted that it had been fully reopened under the terms of the MOU but the ruling regime, and Iranian state media, presented it as being still in Tehran’s control.<\/p>\n
Discussions between Iran and Oman, which also borders the waterway, centered on this issue of control, with Tehran pushing the line that vessels\u00a0would be charged to transit, which would be contrary to international maritime law.<\/p>\n
Alaeddin Boroujerdi, a member of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said on Wednesday that the U.S. had violated the MOU by rejecting Tehran\u2019s role in managing traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
He said that the deal had established that ships would pass through the strait “under the supervision and management of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”<\/p>\n