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US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (not pictured) on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on July 8, 2026. (REUTERS — FILIP SINGER)

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that an interim agreement with Iran was "over" after a new exchange of US and Iranian strikes dimmed prospects that a June memorandum could be turned into a broader peace deal. 

“To me, I think it’s over. I don’t want to deal with them,” Trump told reporters in Ankara on the sidelines of the NATO summit. Asked whether US negotiators could continue speaking with their Iranian counterparts, Trump replied, “I don’t care. They can talk, but I think they’re wasting their time. They’re a bunch of lying guys.”

The latest escalation came after three commercial tankers were hit by projectiles while attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday. 

US Central Command said that American forces struck more than 80 Iranian military targets overnight Tuesday, including air defense systems, command and control networks, coastal radar sites, anti-ship missile capabilities and more than 60 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boats operating in or near the strait. 

The US also revoked a temporary license allowing Iranian oil sales, giving Tehran until July 17 to wind down transactions previously permitted under the interim deal.

Iran’s military command condemned the US strikes as a “blatant act of aggression” and warned that any source of support for US operations against Iranian sovereignty would be........

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