Nikki Haley, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, wrote on the social media platform X by reposting a post by Mark Dubowitz, the director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, saying: “The Islamic Republic will never carry out its promise to end its nuclear program or to give up the leverage it has recently obtained in the Strait of Hormuz.”

She added: “They are trying again to fool us. The only way to stop them is to cut off their financial resources.”

In his message, Mark Dubowitz wrote: “Stop debating the intentions of the Iranian Islamist regime; their intention is clear: they want to kill all of us. Focus on their capabilities. Their nuclear capabilities and their war-making ability have been severely weakened. Now the Trump administration must finish the job and eliminate these capabilities completely.”