‘Wipe it out faster’: Trump again threatens Iran over nuclear enrichment

Al Jazeera-July28th2025

United States President Donald Trump has re-upped threats against Iran, just weeks after launching military strikes on three of the country’s nuclear facilities.

The statement on Monday was in response to Tehran’s position that it will continue to pursue nuclear enrichment for civilian purposes, a red line for the Trump administration in earlier talks this year that fell apart when Israel launched a military offensive against Tehran in June.

Speaking during a news conference in Scotland beside the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump said that Iran was “sending very bad signals, very nasty signals”.

“And they shouldn’t be doing that,” he said. “We wiped out their nuclear possibilities. They can start again. If they do, we’ll wipe it out faster than you can wave your finger at it.”

“We will do that gladly, openly and gladly,” he said.

The statement comes after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi most recently asserted Iran’s right to enrich uranium ahead of talks with the UK, France and Germany last week.

Iranian officials described the talks, the first serious flurry of diplomacy since the US attacks and subsequent end to the escalation with Israel, as “serious, frank and detailed”, but no breakthroughs were announced.

Speaking to Al Jazeera last week, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also said that Iran would not abandon its nuclear programme, but remained open to negotiations.

He added he was “not very optimistic” about the ceasefire that ended the 12-day war with Iran holding.

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