US President Donald Trump demanded that Iran compensate the families of all US citizens injured or killed in attacks orchestrated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in a post on Truth Social on Monday.
"I am likewise demanding compensation from Iran, for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts, for which they are famous, as led initially by General Soleimani, including the families of those killed on the USS Cole, and thousands of others killed in combat," Trump wrote.
"General Soleimani" refers to Iranian arch-terrorist and IRGC Quds Force chief Qasem Soleimani who was killed in a US airstrike on his vehicle in Baghdad in January 2020 at the end of Trump's first term as president.
The USS Cole was a US warship docked in Aden, Yemen, that was attacked by al-Qaeda terrorists on October 12, 2000, when two suicide pilots detonated a small bomb-laden boat, blasting a 40-foot hole in the side of the vessel, killing 17 US sailors and injuring 40 others.
"Additionally, compensation should be paid to the families of the hundreds of thousands of innocent protestors that Iran has killed over the last 50 years, not to mention the 52,000 that have been killed in the last five months. I have instructed my representatives to put this firmly into any, and all, future negotiations," the president added.
He stated that he has instructed US officials to require that compensation be included in any future deals or agreements negotiated between Washington and Tehran.
Trump also reiterated that the "five month Military Conflict" was "started because THEY WILL NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON."
"Also, with respect to the Iran negotiations, Iran should be responsible for the damages and death caused to the people of Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza," Trump wrote in a subsequent Truth Social post shortly afterwards on Monday.
This is a developing story.