President Donald Trump warned Iran that he will eliminate the country if it follows through on any of its threats to assassinate him.
Speaking to News Nation’s Katie Pavlich, President Trump said, “Anything ever happens, the whole country is going to get blown up. I would absolutely hit them so hard. But I have very firm instructions.”
“A president has to defend a president,” he said. “Like, if I were here, and they were making that threat to somebody even, not even a president, but somebody, like they did with me, I would absolutely hit them so hard.” President Trump reiterated that he has “very firm instructions—anything happens, they’re going to wipe them off the face of this Earth.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned in an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal that Iran will fire back “with everything we have if we come under renewed attack.”
He claimed that the statement “isn’t a threat, but a reality I feel I need to convey explicitly, because as a diplomat and a veteran, I abhor war.”
“An all-out confrontation will certainly be ferocious and drag on far, far longer than the fantasy timelines that Israel and its proxies are trying to peddle to the White House,” Araghchi wrote. “It will certainly engulf the wider region and have an impact on ordinary people around the globe.”
“Iran’s message to President Trump is clear: The U.S. has tried every conceivable hostile act against Iran, from sanctions and cyber assaults to outright military attack—and, most recently, it clearly fanned a major terrorist operation—all of which failed,” he added. “It is time to think differently. Try respect, which will allow us to advance farther than one may believe.”
The comments come as Iranian state-run TV showcased the slogan, “This time, [the bullet] won’t miss [the target],” referring to the 2024 assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
