Trump to impose more sanctions on Iran in response to missile strikes

Trump said on Wednesday that the US will impose additional economic sanctions on Iran in response to attacks overnight on two US military bases in Iraq.

The US President added that the sanctions would remain in place until Iran “changed its behaviour”.

Trump also said on Wednesday that as long as he was President of the United States Iran would not be allowed to have nuclear weapons.

Tehran's nuclear programme was the main bone of contention between the two sides with the US in 2015 having withdrawn from the 2015 nuclear deal to restrict Iran's ambitions and imposed sanctions afterwards, which had led Tehran to resume its drive to become a nuclear power.

The US military is “prepared for anything” and that was a good thing for the world, Trump added.

At the end of his speech he also said that he wanted to embrace peace with Iran if its government was willing to negotiate.

He also said that the nuclearisation of Iran which according to Trump “sponsors terrorism” was a concern for the whole world and that the US would put a stop to it.

Americans should be extremely happy that there were no Americans harmed in the Iranian missile strikes, he said.

The comments come after the US attack on Irani chief of militarywhich killed him.

Trump claimed on Wednesday that Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian commander who had been killed six days before, was “a monster”, had “his hands drenched in American and Iranian blood” and was planning more attacks on US citizens and should have been stopped long ago.

Trump also labelled Iran's government as hostile, saying that it had been orchestrating recent attacks such as the bombing of the Saudi Aramco plant and that it had created hell in places such as Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan and even at home.

The remaining signatories of the 2015 Iran deal should pull out and negotiate a new one in order to make the world and Iran a peaceful place.

He also called on NATO to become more involved in the Middle East.