US President Donald Trump says he believes the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran “is over,” following a series of strikes across the region.

“It’s a waste of time dealing with them,” Trump said at the NATO summit in Turkey.

It was the clearest indication yet that Trump’s deal has all but collapsed. The US president’s latest comments followed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps saying it had launched strikes on US military targets across Bahrain and Kuwait in response to US strikes on Iran.

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Trump castigated Iran as “evil, sick people” as his preliminary deal with Tehran appears to be teetering on collapse.

Speaking at the start of a NATO summit in Turkey, Trump called the country “dirty players” for targeting commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, violating a ceasefire.

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, July 8, 2026. (Filip Singer, Pool Photo via AP) Credit: FILIP SINGER/Filip Singer/Pool EPA via AP

Trump said the US was wasting time talking with Iran, and voiced a desire to “do our business” instead of trying to pursue diplomacy.

“We have to rid their cancer, their cancer,” he said. “And you know what you do? You’ve got to cut out cancer early. And that’s the way I feel.”