Trump demands Iran pay compensation for conflict victims in future negotiations

In the long and unresolved tension between Washington and Tehran, President Trump has introduced a sweeping new precondition for diplomacy: that Iran compensate the families of those killed across decades of conflict attributed to its actions. The demand, framed as a mirror to Iran's own request for war reparations, reaches back generations — encompassing sailors, soldiers, protesters, and civilians — and now stands as a declared threshold before any future negotiations can begin. History rarely settles its debts through such declarations, but the act of naming them reshapes the terrain on whi