President Trump said on Saturday that his administration was preparing an additional round of "major" sanctions against Iran Opens a New Window. amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

"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," he wrote in a tweet. "I look forward to the day that sanctions come off Iran, and they become a productive and prosperous nation again - The sooner the better!"

Earlier in the day, Trump told reporters that his administration was moving forward with sanctions.


“They’re going on slowly and in some cases pretty rapidly," Trump said as he was departing for Camp David.