U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday (June 22) "I will do what I have to do" if Iran does not stick to its agreement with Washington.

"If Iran doesn't live up to their agreement, or if they're not behaving, I will do what I have to do," Trump told reporters.

Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed an interim U.S.-Iran deal last week, more than three months after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran and Iran responded with its own attacks on Israel and Gulf states with U.S. bases.

Trump said on Monday Iran was supposed to use the money being unfrozen to buy food exclusively from the United States.

U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran and Israeli strikes in Lebanon have killed thousands and displaced millions. The Iran war has also shaken markets around the world and raised global oil prices.

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Trump: 'I will do what I have to do' if Iran does not stick to deal

VIDEO SHOWS: U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DURING OVAL OFFICE EVENT / SOUNDBITES FROM TRUMP

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SHOWS: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JUNE 22, 2026) (UNRESTRICTED POOL - Access all)

1. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SPEAKING AT OVAL OFFICE EVENT

2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"We're doing very well with respect to the Hormuz strait. We took in more oil yesterday than we've ever, than has ever gone through the strait. You probably see that we have an oil gusher. The strait is totally open, you know that. And we're negotiating. We'll see how that all goes. But, we have two things. We have an open strait, and we have a country that will never have a nuclear weapon, will never, ever have a nuclear weapon."

3. EVENT IN PROGRESS

4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"And I think Iran, I can say in a sort of a different scale is, in its own way, working out very well. Maybe it's hard to say just as well (as Venezuela), but maybe almost just as well. And we're doing very well in terms of, negotiating a fair and reasonable deal. One of the things that we are doing also, and it came up last night, is, money that's being unfrozen is going to be used to buy food, and the food is going to be bought exclusively through the United States from our farmers and corn, soybeans, all of the things they need are going to be bought from our farmers. So our farmers are very happy. I've had a lot of calls. They were very happy about that."

5. MEDIA DURING EVENT

6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"Two days ago we set a record most ever taken out of the Straits, pent-up but it's a record."

7. EVENT IN PROGRESS

8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, IN EXCHANGE WITH OFF-CAMERA REPORTER:

REPORTER (OFF-CAMERA): "Lifting sanctions on Iranian oil."

TRUMP: "Well, I'm going to have to find out exactly the status. But, if the sanctions go out, money is going to be put into this country. All that money's coming back in the form of purchases of food, which they desperately need. They have 91 million people. They can't feed them. So the money that we lift is going to go to our farmers, largely to our farmers."

9. EVENT IN PROGRESS

10. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, IN EXCHANGE WITH OFF-CAMERA REPORTER:

REPORTER (OFF-CAMERA): "Profits from oil sales to rebuild their military?"

TRUMP: "Well, they're not supposed to be doing that. So we'll see. But they're supposed to use money to buy food for their people, because right now their people are very hungry and they're buying it exclusively from us, corn, soybeans, it should be a lot of money. I hope it's a lot of money."

11. MEDIA GATHERED

12. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, IN EXCHANGE WITH OFF-CAMERA REPORTER:

TRUMP: "If Iran doesn't, live up to their agreement or if they're not behaving, I will do what I have to do."

REPORTER (OFF CAMERA): "Does that give them leverage over you, Mr President?"

TRUMP: "You're so...leverage."

13. MEDIA GATHERED

14. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, IN EXCHANGE WITH OFF-CAMERA REPORTER:

REPORTER (OFF-CAMERA): "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his forces are not leaving Lebanon. That is a sticking point."

TRUMP: "Who did he tell that, to you?"

REPORTER (OFF-CAMERA): "He said it publicly in Israel."

TRUMP: "Well, we're going to take a look at it."

REPORTER (OFF-CAMERA) "What would you do to make sure..."

TRUMP: "Well, I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to do, but it gets solved, I'm a problem solver. I get problem solved real fast, including with Bibi."

15. EVENT IN PROGRESS

16. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, IN EXCHANGE WITH OFF-CAMERA REPORTER:

REPORTER (OFF-CAMERA): "...Israel and Lebanon, can you talk about what those mechanisms are, and are you in direct talks with...?"

TRUMP: "Yeah well, look look, here's the thing, as long as they respect us, I don't want to use the word fear because that's an inappropriate word. But as long as they respect us, we're not going to have any trouble. We have total control of the strait. We have a Navy that had a blockade. I think the blockade was more impactful than dropping bombs, if you want to know the truth. It was like I said, they call it the steel wall. Nobody got through. Not one ship got through, able to go to Iran. They got through if we wanted them to go through and we could set that up again in about 15 minutes. I would say, Pete (Hegseth), one phone call, how long, maybe half hour. It'll be before we finish the meeting. No, we have, as long as they respect us, we're going to be fine. If they don't respect us, things wouldn't be good, but they have a lot of respect. Don't forget, we've had presidents that should have done this for 47 years. Nobody did it. Obama gave them a road to a nuclear weapon. I gave them a wall against a...they can never, under this agreement, they'll never even think about building a nuclear bomb."

17. EVENT IN PROGRESS

18. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, IN EXCHANGE WITH OFF-CAMERA REPORTER:

REPORTER (OFF-CAMERA): "One-year anniversary of Operation Midnight Hammer, if you could go back in time, is there anything you would do differently?"

TRUMP: "No, nothing. It's the most successful attack that anyone's ever seen with a bomber that totally wiped out their nuclear potential. If we didn't do that, you'd have no Israel right now. Israel would not exist, and most of the Middle East would not exist. They were two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon. If we wouldn't have done that, they would have had a nuclear weapon."

19. END OF OVAL OFFICE EVENT