Trump tells 'strange' Iranian negotiators to 'get serious soon' or 'it won't be pretty'

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. President Donald Trump says the operation was necessary to eliminate Iran’s nuclear threat and that the U.S. is now positioned to "finish it off." President Donald Trump challenged the "strange" Iranian negotiators to "get serious" about a deal to end the fighting Thursday. "The Iranian negotiators are very different and 'strange,'" Trump wrote in a Thursday morning Truth Social post. "They are 'begging' us to make a deal, which they should be doing since they have been militarily obliterated, with zero chance of a comeback, and yet they publicly state that they are only 'looking at our proposal.' "WRONG!!! They better get serious soon, before it is too late, because once that happens, there is NO TURNING BACK, and it won't be pretty!" The comments sharpened a threat delivered a day earlier by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who said Tr