Trump offers Iran choice: Drop nuclear weapons or face 'maximum pressure'

President Donald Trump went aft Iran successful his archetypal large code successful Saudi Arabia, informing that Tehran indispensable take betwixt ne'er having a atomic limb oregon dealing with his wrath.

"If Iran’s leadership rejects the olive subdivision and continues to onslaught their neighbors, past we volition person nary prime but to inflict monolithic maximum pressure," Trump said during an code to concern leaders successful Riyadh.

"The prime is theirs to make," helium added.  

President Donald Trump speaks during the Saudi-U.S. concern forum astatine the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center successful Riyadh connected May 13, 2025. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images)

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Though Trump said helium wants to marque a woody with Iran and spot Tehran prosper, his comments came aft helium archetypal went aft the Iranian regime and accused it of not lone deteriorating its ain nation, but the portion astatine large. 

"Iran's leaders person focused connected stealing their people's wealthiness to money panic and bloodshed abroad. Most tragic of all, they person dragged down an full portion with them," Trump said. 

The president pointed to the "countless lives lost" successful Iran’s effort to prop up the erstwhile Bashar al-Assad authorities successful Syria – which collapsed successful December – and accused its enactment of Hezbollah for the downfall of Beirut, which helium said was "once called the Paris of the Middle East."

"Can you ideate each of this misery and truthful overmuch much was wholly avoidable, perfectly avoidable," Trump said. 

President Donald J. Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman conscionable astatine the Saudi Royal Court connected May 13, 2025, successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Trump asserted the Biden administration’s removal of immoderate sanctions connected Tehran arsenic the main method successful however Iran financed violent organizations, including Hamas, which helium argued led to the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attacks connected Israel.

Fox News Digital reached retired to a spokesperson for President Joe Biden for remark connected Trump's claims.

"If lone the Iranian authorities had focused connected gathering their federation up alternatively of tearing the portion down," Trump continued. "Yet I'm present contiguous not simply to condemn the past chaos of Iran's leaders, but to connection them a caller way and a overmuch amended way toward a acold amended and much hopeful future.

"In the lawsuit of Iran, I person ne'er believed successful having imperishable enemies," helium said. "Enemies get you motivated. 

U.S Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff shakes hands with Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi successful Muscat, Oman, April 12, 2025. (Oman News Agency/ Handout via Reuters)

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"In fact, immoderate of the closest friends of the United States of America are nations we fought wars against successful generations past," Trump pointed out. 

It is unclear however Trump’s antagonistic comments toward Tehran could interaction ongoing atomic negotiations with Iran. 

The Iranian typical to the U.N. Mission successful New York did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s questions.