Article snippet: MORE announced his administration will slap new sanctions on Iran as tensions between Washington and Tehran mount. “Iran cannot have Nuclear Weapons! Under the terrible Obama plan, they would have been on their way to Nuclear in a short number of years, and existing verification is not acceptable. We are putting major additional Sanctions on Iran on Monday,” Trump tweeted Saturday. “I look forward to the day that Sanctions come off Iran, and they become a productive and prosperous nation again - The sooner the better!” Trump has long criticized of the Obama-era nuclear pact the U.S. and European allies signed with Iran, which traded sanctions relief for limits on Iran’s nuclear enrichment capabilities. The president withdrew the U.S. from the deal in 2018, but Iran has remained within the agreement’s bounds until recently. Trump has long sought to use sanctions to push Iran back to the negotiating table to craft a new deal, but Tehran has expressed little interest in further talks with the Trump administration. "I do not consider Trump as a person worth exchanging any message with," Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said earlier this month. Trump previewed the sanctions earlier Saturday, saying previous rounds took a toll on the Iranian economy and could push the government toward talks. "Iran right now is an economic mess. They're going through hell. The sanctions have hit them hard. More sanctions are going to be put on, a lot more. All I want is no nucle... Link to the full article to read more