US President Donald Trump on Wednesday spoke about the exchange of strikes between the US and Iran, declaring an end to the ceasefire agreement.
At the NATO summit, Trump was asked whether the memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran had ended. He responded, "To me, I think it's over. I don't want to deal with them anymore."
He added, "They're led by sick people... I'll speak to our negotiators. They want to negotiate - they're good people... but they have to come back to me. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a waste of time dealing with them."
"These are evil sick people," he continued. "They're cancer, and you know what you have to do - you have to cut out cancer early."
Regarding the recent US strikes in Iran, Trump spoke during the summit to Fox News, saying, "We attacked very powerfully last night. The very dangerous people from Iran, they're sick, there's something wrong with them. We said go and do your funeral stuff and instead of that they started shooting rockets at ships yesterday and so we hit them very hard last night, very hard."
"And I would say 20 to 1, 20 times tougher and I told them every time you hit, we hit and of course they're dirty players so they go after everyone, probably including me. I've been number one on their list for years and they're a bunch of scum, if you want to know the truth, they're scum. And so we don't like them, I don't like them and they're evil people and it's the denuclearization of Iran and we're going to denuke it. We're not going to let them because they're crazy and they can't have a nuclear weapon and they go around killing people, they've killed thousands and thousands of our soldiers, they've killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
"They've killed thousands and thousands of people, even the USS Cole was theirs, you remember that disaster," he added. "So I don't like them at all and frankly I think we waste a lot of time with them and I think we should just do our business."
"Can you imagine, they start shooting bombs, actually missiles and ships yesterday, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, a couple of others and I don't think they know what the hell they're doing but they're bad people, very bad people. I think they're incompetent, by the way, because if they were competent they would have made a deal a long time ago, like how about 47 years ago."
Regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said that although he "loves" Netanyahu, the Israeli leader "said bad things about Turkey" on Tuesday. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erodgan, Trump added, is "great."