Trump tells 'strange' Iranian negotiators to 'get serious soon' or 'it won't be pretty'

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President Donald Trump challenged the "strange" Iranian negotiators to "get serious" about a deal to end the fighting Thursday. "The Iranian negotiators are very different and 'strange,'" Trump wrote in a Thursday morning Truth Social post. "They are 'begging' us to make a deal, which they should be doing since they have been militarily obliterated, with zero chance of a comeback, and yet they publicly state that they are only 'looking at our proposal.' "WRONG!!! They better get serious soon, before it is too late, because once that happens, there is NO TURNING BACK, and it won't be pretty!" The comments sharpened a threat delivered a day earlier by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt , who said Trump was prepared to "unleash hell" if Iran refused to accept a deal. Leavitt said Iran had "already been defeated" and warned the regime not to "miscalculate again," arguing that continued resistance would bring even heavier U.S. retaliation. TRUMP VOWS TO HIT IRAN 'VERY HARD' AFTER OBLITERATING NEARLY '90 PERCENT' OF REGIME MISSILES "President Trump does not bluff, and he is prepared to unleash hell ," Leavitt said at the beginning of Wednesday's White House press briefing. "Iran should not miscalculate again. Their last miscalculation cost them their senior leadership, their navy, their air force and their air defense system. "Any violence beyond this point will be because the Iranian regime refused to understand they have already been defeated and refused to come to a deal." Trump also lashed out at NATO, accusing alliance members of doing "absolutely nothing" to help confront Iran as the conflict entered its fourth week. "NATO nations have done absolutely nothing to help with the lunatic nation, now militarily decimated, of Iran," Trump wrote in a separate Truth Social post . "The U.S.A. needs nothing from NATO, but 'never forget' this very important point in time!" DEFIANT IRAN VOWS TO FIGHT 'UNTIL COMPLETE VICTORY,' DESPITE HEAVY MILITARY LOSSES The back-to…