The furious comments issued by President Donald Trump over the weekend inspired a sharp and aggressive reaction from Iran, while Russian President Vladimir Putin is fed up in front of the American leader’s IRE.
Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, issued a warning on Monday and said it would respond to “decisively and immediately” for any threat issued by the US after Trip said by Trump and if Tehran does not agree to a nuclear deal with Washington, it would be more tariff.
According to a Reuters report, Khamenei said, “There has always been enmity with the US and Israel. They threaten to attack us, which we do not think is very potential, but if they do any mischief, they will definitely get a strong mutual blow,” Khamenei said according to a Reuters report.
Trump threatens to bomb Iran until they finish the nuclear weapon program and start negotiating on the new deal.
President Donald Trump speaks at the Press in Air Force One, before arriving at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida on March 28, 2025. (Brendon Smileowski/AFP through Getty Image)
“And if they are thinking of treason inside the country like previous years, the Iranian people will treat them themselves,” he said.
Despite Iran’s refusal and warning directed on both the US and Israel, an Iran specialist and senior partner from the Foundation for Defense of Democracy and senior partner Behnam Ben Talebalu said Khamenei’s comments are an attempt to “buy time” in his rule.
“At one time, Khamenei sought to reduce the possibility of President Trump or Israel’s military action, while the government also looks to prevent such incidents due to its policies,” he told Fox News Digital. “This is a criterion Khemenei will be forced to move fast as it plays for time and attachs to nuclear growth.
“American policy should be to keep Khamenei away from balance,” he said.
While Iran takes an aggressive stance against Trump and his ambitions, which finally bring Tehran into the heel on its nuclear expansion, Russia is taking a different view as it refuses to bend Trump’s plans to end the war in Ukraine.
Trump says that he is ‘angry’ with Putin on lack of peace progress: Report
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran. (Dimitri Azrov / Sputnik / AFP)
Over the weekend, Trump said he was “angry” on the comments made by Putin on Friday when he suggested that Washington was working to negotiate a ceasefire with Russia and Ukraine, as he believes that the government was illegitimate and hence could not sign any deal.
“If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault … then I am going to put a secondary tariff on oil on all oils coming out of Russia,” Trump said, seeing that the tariffs can be up to 50%.
The President later stated that his ire “quickly” could spread if Putin “does the right thing,” and once again noted that he has a very good relationship with “Putin).”
However, the Kremlin chief, who allegedly set another call with Trump this week, has not responded to Trump’s hot comments.
Putin’s chief spokesperson, Dimitri Peskov, said on Monday that Russia would continue working on the “restoration” relationship with Washington that he said that “Biden damaged by the Biden administration” after Russia’s illegal attack in Ukraine, and noticed that Putin is in “open contact” with Trump.
However, Putin’s lack of public response and Toned-down statement from Kremlin is part of Putin’s widespread strategy, former DIA intelligence officer and expert from Russia, Rebka Coleper told Fox News Digital.
President Donald Trump spoke to reporters in the Air Force on his return to Washington, DC on 30 March, 2025, when he said he was “angry” in Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Reuters/Kevin Lamark)
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“Putin, like Trump, thrives on a collision,” said Cofler. “Except for his approach, Kremlin is deliberately stating that Putin is calm, calm and now gathered, which he is.
“The fact is that President Trump allegedly went mad and used the words, for Putin it means that he finally reached him, the way he found Biden, Obama and others who called him a killer and other derogatory words,” he said.
“Now Putin feels that not only Russia has an upper hand on Ukraine in the battlefield and on NATO in terms of total combat capacity, but he was also able to unbalance Trump,” explained by the coffee. “This is the whole point – this is a judo trick.”
