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Cash-starved Iranian regime is ‘collapsing financially,’ says Trump

President Trump downplays decision to extend ceasefire, says time is on America’s side as Iranian economy is throttled by US blockade.

By David Rosenberg, World Israel News

The Iranian regime is increasingly unable to meet its financial obligations, including payments to soldiers and police officers, President Donald Trump said overnight.

In a post published to his Truth Social account just after midnight on Wednesday, Trump wrote that the American blockade on Iran has left the Islamic Republic on the verge of financial collapse.

“Iran is collapsing financially! They want the Strait of Hormuz opened immediately- Starving for cash! Losing 500 Million Dollars a day. Military and Police complaining that they are not getting paid,” Trump wrote.

The comments came hours after Trump announced that he had agreed to extend the ceasefire with Iran, while maintaining the blockade.

In a pair of posts Tuesday night, the president downplayed the significance of the extension, while pushing back on accusations that the decision was a strategic victory for Iran and a sign that Tehran had outmaneuvered the US.

“Iran doesn’t want the Strait of Hormuz closed, they want it open so they can make $500 Million Dollars a day (which is, therefore, what they are losing if it is closed!),” Trump wrote.

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“They only say they want it closed because I have it totally BLOCKADED (CLOSED!), so they merely want to ‘save face.’ People approached me four days ago, saying, ‘Sir, Iran wants to open up the Strait, immediately.’”

Trump added that without the blockade, the US would be forced to “blow up” Iran.

“But if we do that, there can never be a Deal with Iran, unless we blow up the rest of their Country, their leaders included!”

The president mocked a Wall Street Journal opinion piece entitled “The Iranians Take Trump for a Sucker.”

“Really?” Trump wrote, calling author Elliot Kaufman “an idiot.”

:For 47 years, they have killed our people, and many others, and taken advantage of every President, except me — And what did I give to them, a Country in tatters! Their entire Navy is at the bottom of the Sea, their Air Force is gone, their Anti Aircraft and Radar is wiped out, their Nuclear Labs and Storage Areas were OBLITERATED.”

“The Strait of Hormuz is BLOCKADED and totally controlled by the U.S., with no Ships allowed to go to Iranian Ports — It is said that they are losing 500 Million Dollars a day because of … But despite all of this, I have a MORON on the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal writing about me being taken for a ‘sucker.’”

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“Iran certainly doesn’t think so!”