President Donald Trump speaks about FIFA after ringing the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq in the Oval Office at the White House, Monday, July 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

NEW YORK (VINnews) — U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the issue of the Iranian agreement at the NATO summit in Turkey, referring to the U.S. strike against Iran overnight.

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Trump’ was asked by a reporter at the  summit in Ankara: “Is the ceasefire over? Is the ceasefire done? Is the MoU dead?” (the memorandum of understanding, which led to the ceasefire, was agreed last month).

Trump replied: “It’s a very interesting question. To me, I think it’s over.

“I don’t want to deal with them anymore, they’re scum. You know what scum is? They’re scum. They’re sick people. They’re led by sick people. And they’re vicious, violent people.

“And if they had a nuclear weapon, they’d use it. As far as I’m concerned it’s over.

“I’ll speak to our negotiators, they want to negotiate, they’re good people. Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, but they have to come back to me. As far as I’m concerned, it’s just a waste of time dealing with them. They’re liars.

“We make a deal. If I make a deal with him [pointing at Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte], we have a deal. He goes out, he talks. We [US and Iran] make a deal, everyone’s agreed, no nuclear weapon.

“We make a deal. They [Iran] go outside, talk to the press, they say ‘we never even talked about it’. There’s something wrong with them. They’re cuckoo. As far as I’m concerned, it’s over.”

Trump is then asked if talks will resume.

“I don’t care, they can talk. But I think they’re wasting their time. They’re a bunch of lying guys.”

In reference to the US strikes on Iran, Trump said that “We struck Iran’s very dangerous people with tremendous force last night. They are sick. Something is wrong with them. They stopped dealing with funerals and instead began firing missiles at ships yesterday. So we hit them very hard last night — very, very hard. I would say 20 times harder.”

Trump also said: “They want to kill me, the President of the United States. I have been number one on their list for years.”

He added:

“Of course, they are dirty players, so they go after everyone, probably including me.”

Earlier today, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a senior U.S. official, that the American strikes against Iranian targets overnight were four to five times larger in scope than previous strikes carried out after the memorandum of understanding between the two countries was signed. At the same time, U.S. officials clarified that Washington still considers the ceasefire to remain in effect.

Following the overnight exchange of strikes, Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying:

“The violations of arrangements in the Strait of Hormuz and the ongoing Israeli attacks in Lebanon have made the interim arrangement ineffective.”

The Iranian Foreign Ministry also repeated its warning to regional countries not to allow the United States to use their territory for attacks against Iran.