“Iran can’t get their act together. They don’t know how to sign a non-nuclear deal. They'd better get smart soon,” US President Donald Trump said on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday.
Trimp shared an illustration of himself wearing a black suit and sunglasses while holding a firearm, with explosions in an Iranian landscape behind him, captioned “No more Mr Nice Guy".
The message comes just before Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth’s scheduled first testimony on the Iran war.
Trump reportedly instructed aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran on Tuesday.
He assessed that his other options, to resume bombing or walk away from the conflict, carried more risk than maintaining the blockade.
The US and Israel launched a joint offensive against Iran on February 28, prompting Tehran to respond with strikes on what it described as US interests across the region, many of them in Gulf countries.
A ceasefire was announced on April 8 through Pakistani mediation, followed by talks hosted in Islamabad on April 11-12, but the negotiations ended without an agreement.
Trump later said the truce had been extended at Pakistan’s request pending a proposal from Tehran.
He signalled on Monday that he was unlikely to accept Iran’s latest proposal to end the war after Tehran proposed a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz while leaving questions about its nuclear programme for later negotiations.
