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President Donald Trump of the United States of America, USA, has said any country that supplied weapons to Iran would face 50 percent tariffs “without exemptions”.
President Trump made this known in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, after the ceasefire agreement reached between the US and Iran last night.
Trump declared: “A country supplying military weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately.
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“There will be no exclusions or exemptions!”
Also, on Wednesday, Trump said there will be no enrichment of uranium by Iran, and that the countries will work together to “dig up and remove” nuclear material buried by US strikes last year.
“The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change!” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform hours after he proclaimed a two-week ceasefire in the Middle East war.
“There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear ‘Dust,’” he added, apparently referring to the aftermath of US strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities last year.
The statement marked the latest announcement by Trump after he backed off a threat to inflct devastating strikes on Iran — which he has accused for years of seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
The deal for a two-week ceasefire includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for oil and a fulcrum of the nearly six-week-long war.
In June 2025, US forces struck three nuclear sites in Iran — Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan — with powerful bunker-busting bombs dropped from B-2 stealth bombers.
Trump at the time claimed the operation “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capability and set back its nuclear program by decades.
But the exact extent of the damage is unknown. Prior to last year’s strikes, Iran was enriching uranium to 60 percent, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
That is far higher than necessary for civilian reactor levels, and close to the 90 percent required to build a nuclear weapon.
While Western powers and Israel have long accused Iran of seeking to acquire atomic weapons, Tehran denies it.
Trump also said that as part of engagement with Tehran, “we are, and will be, talking Tariff and Sanctions relief with Iran.”
But he warned against anyone supplying military weapons to Iran, threatening 50-percent US tariffs, “effective immediately,” on countries that do so.
According to Iranian state media, the plan proposed by Tehran calls for the lifting of sanctions that are stifling the country’s economy, and stipulates that the United States accept Iran’s uranium enrichment, a demand at deep odds with Washington’s stated position.
Iran has accused the United States and Israel of violating the terms of the agreement for the two-week temporary ceasefire brokered by Pakistan.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Iranian Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf stated that three clauses in their 10-point proposal had been breached.
Ghalibaf listed the non-compliance with “the first clause,” regarding the ceasefire in Lebanon, saying it was among Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s commitments.
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The lawmaker also mentioned the entry of an intruding drone into Iran’s airspace, which was destroyed in the city of Lar in Fars Province.
The third infraction, according to Ghalibaf, is the denial of Iran’s right to enrichment, which he said was included in the sixth clause of the framework.
The official said with the “workable basis on which to negotiate” openly violated even before the negotiations began, a ceasefire or negotiations “is unreasonable.”
The White House dismissed Iran’s initial proposal on Wednesday, saying it was “fundamentally unserious, unacceptable, and completely discarded.”
“It was literally thrown in the garbage by President Donald Trump and his negotiating team,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.
The spokesperson said Iran had put forward a “more reasonable and entirely different condensed plan” after acknowledging the reality of the defeat they were facing.
Pakistan made a last-minute proposal Tuesday to avert catastrophic US attacks on Iran, hours ahead of a deadline set by President Donald Trump who warned a “whole civilization will die tonight”.
The White House said it was aware and would respond to the proposal by Pakistan, which has sought to mediate after more than five weeks of US and Israeli attacks on Iran.
“Diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in near future,” Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif wrote on X.
He appealed directly to Trump to extend his deadline set for 8:00 PM Washington time (midnight GMT) by two weeks.
