{"id":2481,"date":"2026-08-12T06:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2026-08-12T06:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:46:57","slug":"trump-scoffs-at-irans-demand-for-war-reparations-and-other-mideast-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=2481","title":{"rendered":"Trump scoffs at Iran\u2019s demand for war reparations and other Mideast developments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. President Donald Trump<\/span> on Monday scoffed at Iran\u2019s demand for reparations for devastation caused to the country by the U.S. and Israeli bombardment over the past five months \u2014 a demand he said Tehran\u2019s negotiators hadn\u2019t raised until now.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war<\/span> and the wider Middle East. Full coverage can be found here<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Trump demands Iran pay for decades of US military deaths <\/h2>\n

Trump\u2019s social media post Monday came after Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei stressed that Iran will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz<\/span> until the U.S. meets its conditions. <\/p>\n

Tehran wants<\/span> the U.S. to end its blockade of Iranian ports, lift economic sanctions and release Iran\u2019s frozen assets. It also said the U.S. must pay compensation for war damage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is up to the U.S. side to stop and make amends for its illegal and destructive actions,\u201d Baghaei said.<\/p>\n

Trump responded that he is now demanding \u201ccompensation from Iran, for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The U.S. government has blamed Iran-backed militants for the deaths and injuries of hundreds of Americans over several decades. They include a 1983 bombing that killed 241 U.S. military personnel at a Marine compound in Beirut and the deaths of at least 603 U.S. troops in Iraq between 2003 and 2011.<\/p>\n

Trump said he also wants Tehran to compensate the families of Iranian protesters who were killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have instructed my representatives to put this firmly into any, and all, future negotiations,\u201d Trump said in his post.<\/p>\n

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 through which roughly one-fifth of the world\u2019s traded oil supplies passed before the war \u2014 has kept energy prices as a major focus of U.S. politics ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s supreme leader is said to want unity amid signs of division<\/h2>\n

Iran\u2019s president said the country\u2019s supreme leader is calling for \u201cunity and cohesion\u201d as the Islamic Republic faces economic hardships and sanctions stemming from its war<\/span> with the United States. <\/p>\n

President Masoud Pezeshkian described a nearly seven-hour meeting with Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei<\/span> in an interview with Iranian state television that aired amid apparent tensions among the Islamic Republic\u2019s leaders<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Pezeshkian told the state-run IRIB that he and Khamenei discussed \u201cpeople\u2019s livelihoods, the state of the market, employment, people\u2019s housing,\u201d as well as \u201cproblems that are now being created as a result of the (U.S.) sanctions.\u201d He didn\u2019t say when or where they met.<\/p>\n

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Most important, he said, was Khamenei\u2019s emphasis on unity.<\/p>\n

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