NEW DELHI: In a hanging echo of his predecessor, US PresidentDonald Trump on Wednesday made an embarrassing gaffe as he confused India with Iran. Twice. Whereas repeating his rant about negotiating a ceasefire between New Delhi and Islamabad, he referred to India as Iran, calling it a nuclear nation.Trump claimed he threatened each nations with 200% tariffs if the battle blew up right into a full-fledged struggle.“In case you take a look at Pakistan and Iran — I advised them I used to be within the midst of negotiating a commerce take care of Iran and Pakistan, and due to tariffs, they wished to barter a lot in another way. I heard they had been taking pictures at one another, after which I stated throughout considered one of my conversations, “Are you guys going to go to struggle?” I stated, ‘This is a deal — you go to struggle, and I gotta put a 200% tariff and cease you from doing any enterprise in the US’. I stated this to each of them, and inside 24 hours, the struggle ended. That might have been a nuclear struggle,Trump continues to blow a “ceasefire” trumpet regardless of India rejecting his claims and PM Modi Firmly stating in Parliament that no international chief requested India to cease the assault. Sharing new particulars about India’s Operation Sindoor in Lok Sabha, PM Modi stated that US Vice President JD Vance had known as him on Could 9, to tell him a few ‘enormous’ impending strike by Pakistan.“On the night time of ninth Could, the Vice President of America tried to speak to me. He tried for an hour, however I used to be in a gathering with my military, so I couldn’t choose up his name. Later, I known as him again. The Vice President of America Informed me on the telephone that Pakistan goes to launch an enormous assault. My reply was that if Pakistan has this intention, it would value them lots. If Pakistan assaults, we are going to reply by launching an enormous assault. This was my reply,” PM Modi advised the Decrease Home.He additional stated that no chief anyplace on the planet had requested India to cease its response, saying, “no international chief urged India to halt the operation.”“Operation Sindoor has not been known as off but and Pakistan stays on discover,” Modi stated, including that the neighbour’s nuclear bluff has been known as and India wouldn’t succumb to nuclear blackmail.