Trump counters Iran's reparations demand with sweeping compensation claims

In the long and tangled history between Washington and Tehran, a new chapter has opened — not with missiles, but with ledgers. President Trump, responding to Iran's demand for war reparations tied to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has instructed his negotiators to counter with sweeping compensation claims of their own: for American soldiers killed, for Iranian civilians slain by their own government across five decades, and for suffering inflicted across the broader Middle East. What began as a diplomatic condition has become a mirror held between two adversaries, each insisting the othe