Trump says a new round of strikes on Iran will happen if negotiations fail Trump stated that if the negotiations in Pakistan fail to reach an agreement, U.S. warships are reloading weapons and preparing to strike Iran. In an interview with *The New York Post*, Trump said: 'We are restarting operations. We’re loading the best ammunition, the most advanced weapons onto the warships—better than what we used before, and we already blew them to pieces last time.' 'If we can’t reach a deal, we’ll use them, and we’ll use them very effectively.'