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President Donald Trump said that he blames Iran, not Israel, for the “damages and death” done to Gaza and Lebanon on Monday after he demanded compensation from Tehran in his latest attempt to achieve favorable terms in his negotiations with Iran.

“[W]ith 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 said in a post on Truth Social on Monday.

The post was an addendum to a new demand he laid out in an earlier post for Iran to give out compensation to the U.S. and others for a wide variety of different incidents that happened over the past five decades.

Trump said that he is “demanding compensation from Iran, for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts.” The post comes in response to Iranian officials saying on Saturday that they are demanding that the U.S. compensate Iran for war damage, lift its sanctions, and withdraw the military as demands for the end of the war and opening of the Strait of Hormuz.

“I have instructed my representatives to put this firmly into any, and all, future negotiations,” Trump said.

This includes, he says, the families of the 17 soldiers........

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