Trump says Iran ceasefire is 'over' after Iranian attacks trigger massive US response

Trump says Iran ceasefire is 'over' after Iranian attacks trigger massive US response.

President Donald Trump said the tentative ceasefire with Iran is 'over' after an intense bombing campaign overnight that followed Iranian attacks on commercial shipping.

'For me? I think it's over,' Trump told reporters during a meeting with Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday. 'I don't want to deal with them anymore, they're scum.'

He said talks with Iran could continue, but they're a waste of time. 'They're liars, they're cheats. They're sick people.'

The comments may signal an end to weeks of talks that followed both sides signing a memorandum of understanding, in which they agreed to allow traffic to resume in the Strait of Hormuz and spend 60 days negotiating a long-term peace deal.

But Iran struck at least three commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Monday and Tuesday, and the U.S. military responded with strikes on more than 80 targets in Iran.

'We attacked very powerfully last night the very dangerous people from Iran,' Trump said. He noted that the U.S. had given Iranians a week off from negotiations for the funeral of slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. 'We said, go and do your funeral stuff,' he said. 'And instead of that, they started shooting rockets at ships yesterday.'

British maritime authorities confirmed a vessel was struck by a projectile near the coast of Oman Monday, while Iranian state media reported the ship had ignored warnings from Iranian forces. A second vessel, the Saudi-flagged crude tanker Wedyan, also sustained damage near the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official confirmed. On Tuesday, the U.K. Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported that another tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz had been struck by an unidentified projectile.