He raised doubts about whether Tehran would abide by any future diplomatic commitments.
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"I just don’t know if they’re worthy of making a deal - I don’t know that they’re going to honour the deal, that’s the problem," he added.
Iran Responds: 'If You Strike, You’ll Get Hit'
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi rejected the possibility of further talks and condemned the American remarks on X.
"We do not answer vulgarity with vulgarity, but with action: fearlessly and with great valour," Araghchi wrote.
Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf also issued a warning on X regarding potential counterstrikes. "Let me put it plainly: if you strike, you’ll get hit," he wrote.
US Central Command reaffirmed its objective to secure international shipping corridors in the region, aiming to "further degrade Tehran’s ability to threaten freedom of navigation."
The military command emphasized that the actions were intended to protect civilian crews.
"The United States is holding Iran accountable for recent unjustified aggression against commercial shipping and civilian crews freely navigating a vital international waterway," it said.
In financial markets, Tyler Rosenlicht of Cohen & Steers commented to The Wall Street Journal on the sudden instability.
"We always expected it to be a rocky road to resolution, but this is a pretty big rock," he said.
He expressed concern over market predictability amid the conflict. "It’s really tough to be confident in anything," Rosenlicht added.
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Meanwhile, the Mehr news agency reported that the coffin of Iran's late supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was moved from Najaf to Mashhad for burial, concluding six days of ceremonies.
