US President Donald Trump on Monday issued a counter-demand for financial compensation from Tehran, citing decades of alleged Iranian military activity and internal repression, Anadolu reports. “I am … demanding compensation from Iran, for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs,” Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social. The US president also demanded compensation for “hundreds of thousands of innocent protestors” killed by the Iranian government over the past 50 years. The ultimatum follows reports that Iranian representatives are seeking damages from the five-month regional war the US and Israel began on Feb. 28. Trump dismissed these claims, asserting that reparations for Iran were “never mentioned” during negotiations.