Trump Team: No Olive Branches for Iran

0:00It's April 19th. This is U.S. News Today, powered by AI bringing U.A. matters across the U.S. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz went on multiple Sunday shows to lay it out straight. President Trump is ready to ramp up pressure on Iran. If peace talks flop, he defended hitting key infrastructure like bridges and power plants, calling out critics who label it war crimes. All options stay on the table heading into a Wednesday ceasefire deadline. Talks are set to restart Monday in Islamabad, but Waltz may clear the Trump team is an extending any olive branches without results. He framed this as part of a bigger squeeze on Iran, already hurting for military setbacks and economic hits. Democrat lawmakers and others slammed the infrastructure targeting as illegal, but Waltz shot that down hard. He pointed to decades of U.S. ops taking out enemy power grids and said Iran's revolutionary guard runs much of their war machine through civilian, setups like hospitals and schools. Iran's looking weaker

1:00than ever, with Waltz saying their leadership is in chaos, and over 100 nations have condemned their strikes on ports and airports. The U.S. Navy's got the straight of hormones locked down, controlling what ships through. Bottom line, no trust here. Any deal needs ironclad verification from international inspectors, and Trump won't budge on Iran ever getting nukes. They're desperate and isolated, finally dragging back to negotiate.