US President Trump: “We’re not finished at all with Iran”

Agustin Wazne FXStreet

United States (US) President Donald Trump said during a press conference at the White House on Tuesday that Washington could intensify its military campaign against Iran, including possible strikes on the underground Pickaxe Mountain site. Trump also dismissed the prospect of immediate negotiations with Tehran and reiterated that the blockade would remain in place.

Key takeaways:

We’ll be hitting the Pickaxe Mountain area pretty soon, very heavily.

Iran hasn’t seen anything yet. We’ve been nice.

Iran is probably trying to impact the elections through Hormuz.

We’ll hit any site that Iran is considering for nuclear operations.

We’re not finished at all with Iran. We’re not leaving right now. We have had a big impact on Iran.

I would speak to Hezbollah.

Nobody gets through the blockade.

I have no interest in meeting Iran until they are ready.

Iran wants to meet. We have no interest. Iran desperately wants to meet.

On Israel: “We will be looking at issues in pilot zones.”

On Canadian tariffs: “It is not related to the wildfires. It is because they have been tough on our farmers and on us.”

US Dollar Price Today

The table below shows the percentage change of US Dollar (USD) against listed major currencies today. US Dollar was the strongest against the British Pound.

	USD	EUR	GBP	JPY	CAD	AUD	NZD	CHF
USD		0.08%	0.44%	0.33%	0.22%	-0.13%	0.15%	0.27%
EUR	-0.08%		0.37%	0.26%	0.15%	-0.19%	0.07%	0.20%
GBP	-0.44%	-0.37%		-0.11%	-0.22%	-0.55%	-0.29%	-0.17%
JPY	-0.33%	-0.26%	0.11%		-0.11%	-0.44%	-0.20%	-0.05%
CAD	-0.22%	-0.15%	0.22%	0.11%		-0.34%	-0.07%	0.05%
AUD	0.13%	0.19%	0.55%	0.44%	0.34%		0.26%	0.38%
NZD	-0.15%	-0.07%	0.29%	0.20%	0.07%	-0.26%		0.12%
CHF	-0.27%	-0.20%	0.17%	0.05%	-0.05%	-0.38%	-0.12%

The heat map shows percentage changes of major currencies against each other. The base currency is picked from the left column, while the quote currency is picked from the top row. For example, if you pick the US Dollar from the left column and move along the horizontal line to the Japanese Yen, the percentage change displayed in the box will represent USD (base)/JPY (quote).

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Agustin Wazne

FXStreet

Agustin Wazne joined FXStreet as a Junior News Editor, focusing on Commodities and covering Majors.

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