Trump says ‘there will be bombing’ if Iran fails to make ‘peace deal’

President Trump threatens Iran with bombing if nuclear weapons development continues, risking wider conflict and military escalation.

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened that Iran will be bombed if it persists in developing nuclear weapons.

“If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing,” NBC News said the President told one of its correspondents in an interview late Saturday (March 29, 2025). It said he also threatened to punish Iran with what he called “secondary tariffs.”

Mr. Trump’s language represented a sharpening of his comment a few days earlier that if Tehran refused to negotiate a new nuclear agreement, “bad, bad things are going to happen to Iran.”

It was not clear whether Mr. Trump was threatening bombing by U.S. planes alone or in an operation coordinated with Israel.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar told Politico late last month that “in order to stop a nuclear Iranian program before it will be weaponized, a reliable military option should be on the table.”

Analysts have said Iran may be just weeks away from producing a deliverable nuclear weapon — though Tehran denies it is building such arms. Either way, such an attack carries a risk of spreading to a wider conflict.

Mr. Trump in 2018 pulled the United States out of an agreement to relieve sanctions on Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear program.