Trump says Iran has taken too long to negotiate, will 'pay the price'

WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President ‌Donald Trump ​on Wednesday ​said Tehran has taken too long to negotiate a deal and would now "have to pay the price" after Iran and the ‌United States exchanged strikes in the region amid reported efforts ⁠to continue talks.

"Iran is all talk and no action," Trump wrote in a social media ‌post. "They’ve taken too long to ‌negotiate a deal that would have been great for them, now they will have to pay the price!!!"

Trump, in a later interview with Fox ​News, said he was getting close to ordering new strikes targeting Iran's power plants and bridges if Tehran is unwilling to sign an agreement.

The ⁠comments come as an official with knowledge of the situation told Reuters that Qatari negotiators traveled to ​Tehran on Wednesday morning in an effort to finalize an agreement, after consultations with the United States.

In recent weeks, the ​Republican president has veered between public warnings ‌and optimism that a deal was imminent. His latest remarks revived threats to attack Iranian infrastructure that international law experts said ⁠raised human rights concerns when they were first issued in March.

Asked about Iran's latest strikes Wednesday against U.S. military bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation for ⁠American strikes on Iranian targets around the Strait of Hormuz, Trump told Fox that ​Iran had a chance to sign a deal and survive and that he may keep going with more strikes given the slow pace of negotiations, according to the network.

The ‌talks have been focused on generating a framework to halt the war, ease tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and ‌enable further negotiations over issues including Tehran's nuclear material.

The White House did not ⁠immediately respond to a request ‌for comment on Trump's post ​or the reported negotiators' consultations and travel.

(Reporting by Susan Heavey, Katharine Jackson and Trevor Hunnicutt; editing by Ros Russell and ‌Chizu Nomiyama)

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