Iran faces ‘complete destruction and certain death’ in an imminent escalation of the US-Israeli attack that has wreaked devastation on the ancient Middle Eastern country over the past week, Donald Trump has threatened.
In a bullish TruthSocial post, the president praised the ‘relentless US and Israeli attack’ that has unfolded since February 28, stating that it had turned Iran into the ‘LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST’ after President Masoud Pezeshkian issued an apology earlier today.
The Iranian political leader today released an unscripted address that rejected Trump’s demand for ‘unconditional surrender’, while apologizing to its Gulf neighbors for the hundreds of drone and missile attacks launched since Israel decapitated the country’s leadership in an airstrike last Saturday.
Pezeshkian blamed the attacks on military installations and oil infrastructure across the region on military units operating under a ‘fire at will’ policy, in the absence of a functioning leadership structure. Promising to hit Iran even harder, Trump said the country had already ‘surrendered’.
The US-Israeli bombing campaign over Iran has intensified over the past seven days (ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)
President Trump’s social media statement championed the US’ role in bringing about the first time ‘Iran has ever lost, in thousands of years,’ during a conflict involving its neighbors. He also warned: “Today Iran will be hit very hard!”
With Ayatollah Khamenei dead and factions inside Iran’s military apparatus and IRGC security forces vying to continue the 1979 Islamic Revolution, overthrowing the US-backed secular monarchy, Trump warned that the strikes would not stop.
Instead, the Commander-in-Chief said that certain ‘groups of people’ not previously targeted by US and Israeli jets, drones, and ballistic missiles would now be ‘under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death.’
While he did not specify who was being targeted, President Trump said the escalation would hit those responsible for Iran’s ‘bad behaviour.’
Thousand of bombs, missiles, and drones have been launched in the past week (ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)
The president’s incendiary social media statement came just hours before he attended the Shield of the Americas summit in Miami, where he told attendees that the US’ war against Iran was going ‘very well’.
Adding that the war, which has seen over 2000 deaths across the Middle East in the past week, has been ‘amazing’, Trump revealed that America had destroyed 42 Iranian naval vessels over the past three days.
After speaking at the security summit, the president will be going to meet some of the families of soldiers who have died since the war began. Before leaving, he told the summit that the soldiers were ‘coming home from Iran in a different manner than they thought they’d be coming home’.
With the White House indicating that this war, officially called a ‘major combat operation’, could continue for some time, President Trump added that he would try to keep casualties to ‘a minimum’.
President Trump’s Iran statement in full
Donald Trump said Iran faces ‘complete destruction and certain death’ (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Topics: Iran, Donald Trump, Israel
