“…the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come - And they know how to use it.”
After Israel launched airstrikes on key military targets on Thursday, President Donald Trump warned that the country must make a deal with the US "before there is nothing left" in the country in order to "save what was once known as the Iranian Empire." Trump signaled that Israel may keep attacking the regime if Iran does not take a "second chance" at making a deal.
The president called back to the "60 day ultimatum" that he had issued a couple months ago for Iran to "make a deal" regarding the country's nuclear program.
"Two months ago I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to 'make a deal.' They should have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn’t get there. Now they have, perhaps, a second chance!" Trump added.
"I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal," President Donald Trump added in another post to Truth Social. "I told them, in the strongest of words, to 'just do it,' but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done. I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come - And they know how to use it."
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View on X"Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse! There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end. Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. God Bless You All!" he added.
The comments from the president come after Israel launched "Operation Rising Lion" in strikes against Iran on their nuclear facilities, and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi told Israeli President Isaac Herzog that the facilities were severely damaged from the air strikes, per Fox News.
"Overnight, Israeli Air Force fighter jets, guided by precise intelligence from the Intelligence Directorate, struck the Iranian regime's uranium enrichment site in the Natanz area," the IDF said. "In addition, critical infrastructure enabling the site's continuous operation and the Iranian regime's ongoing efforts to obtain nuclear weapons were targeted."
In addition to hitting the nuclear facilities, Israel has reported that the majority of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' air force leadership was killed in the strikes. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the IRGC’s Air Force, is also dead, the IDF said. Top generals of the Iranian military were also killed, including Gen. Hossein Salami as well as Gen. Mohammad Bagheri.
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