Trump Claims Iran Denuclearisation ‘Going Well’, Says US Struck Targets for Three Nights

US President Donald Trump, while speaking of the Iran imbroglio on Wednesday (local time), said that the denuclearisation was going well.

Amid the repeated ceasefire talks that metamorphosed into ceaseless strikes, Trump said the US struck Iranian ships for three nights.

Trump further said that the stock market is setting records virtually every day as the US ensures Iran does not possess a nuclear weapon.

"The stock market is setting records virtually every day. The oil price is way down. We're down at 68, I see it hit 68 today. That's lower than when I started the, I guess you could call it an attack on Iran, so that they never have a nuclear weapon. So the oil price is now lower, the retail prices, the gasoline is coming down rapidly," he said.

"I think they've come a long way. We hit them very hard last week. I think they're fine. I think we're going to, it's the denuclearization of Iran, it's very simple. And Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, otherwise all of this stuff that we look at, all of these things that we do, the country's never had activity like it's got right now,” Trump added.

Meanwhile, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi on Thursday strongly criticised the US-led regional security summit in Bahrain, rejecting Western attempts to allegedly dictate security frameworks in the Persian Gulf and the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

In a post on X, Gharibabadi dismissed both the legitimacy of the military summit and the authority of the American command structure in the region, asserting that "Hormuz is defined under Iran's command, not CENTCOM."

He maintained that a military summit in Bahrain cannot establish "legal order and security for the Persian Gulf".

(With inputs from ANI)