President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the U.S. will go back to "dropping bombs on their head" if Iran does not agree to a satisfactory peace deal, underscoring that the administration's emerging agreement with Tehran remains far from finalized.
Speaking alongside Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi at the G7 Summit in France, Trump stressed that the memorandum of understanding being negotiated with Iran is only a preliminary framework and warned that military action remains on the table if the regime fails to comply.
"It's a memorandum of understanding, and if I don’t like it, we’ll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their head," Trump said in remarks shown live on Newsmax.
"If they don’t behave, we’ll go back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head because they’ve misbehaved for 47 years."
Trump has repeatedly argued that the overriding objective of the agreement is ensuring Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon.
"It's a great deal," Trump said. "Number one by far — 99.9% — is they will never have a nuclear weapon. You can’t give Iran a nuclear weapon, and they will never have a nuclear weapon."
According to reports, Trump and Vice President JD Vance electronically signed the preliminary agreement Sunday, with a formal signing ceremony expected Friday in Switzerland.
The deal would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and establish a framework for future negotiations between Washington and Tehran.
Critics, however, have raised concerns that the MOU lacks detailed provisions requiring Iran to dismantle key elements of its nuclear program.
The Hill reported that while Iran commits to never building a nuclear bomb, the agreement does not appear to require Tehran to surrender its stockpile of enriched uranium or provide other concrete nuclear concessions.
Some supporters of the administration's military campaign against Iran have also objected to provisions that could allow renewed Iranian oil exports and a reported $300 billion development fund backed by Gulf nations.
Trump pushed back against claims the U.S. would finance such a fund.
"We are not investing in it and we do not have a fund," Trump said. "We are not investing 10 cents."
The president argued the alternative to a negotiated settlement would be severe economic disruption, including threats to global energy markets if the Strait of Hormuz remains unstable.
Trump also contrasted the emerging agreement with former President Barack Obama's 2015 nuclear deal, which he withdrew from during his first term, arguing his administration has taken a far tougher approach toward Tehran while maintaining pressure to prevent the regime from becoming a nuclear power.