Trump threats to ‘complete the job’ in warning message to Iran | World | News
President Trump threatened to ‘get the job done’ and ‘make sure Iran no longer exists’ in a warning message following new attacks on Iran.
“United States aircraft AGAIN struck Iran’s missile and drone depots and coastal radar sites for violating the Armistice Agreement! It is very likely that they will never find out!” Trump wrote at Truth Social.
“There may come a point when we can no longer act reasonably, and we may have to complete militarily what we have successfully started. If this happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!”
The warning came after US Central Command said it had launched retaliatory strikes after Tehran allegedly attacked a commercial oil tanker with drones in the Strait of Hormuz.
The US military said on Saturday that it hit 10 targets in Iran on the orders of President Trump.
Following an attack on a commercial ship early Saturday morning, a US military aircraft targeted the Iranian military’s “surveillance infrastructure, communications systems, air defense facilities, unmanned aircraft storage facilities and mine-laying capabilities,” US Central Command said in a post on social media.
A series of attacks in the Gulf show that despite the interim agreement reached between the US and Iran, there is a risk that the war will spiral out of control again.
The ship hit by Iran was the Panama-flagged M/T Kiku tanker and was carrying more than 2 million barrels of crude oil near the strait.
The US military also launched an attack on Friday following reports of another attack on the Singapore-flagged cargo ship M/V Ever Lovely.
He claimed that “Iran had a chance to honor the ceasefire agreement” but “chose not to” when its forces attacked Kiku.
Earlier this month, the two countries agreed to a ceasefire agreement and memorandum of understanding ahead of a possible peace deal, but the Strait of Hormuz remained a hotspot.
Despite the increase in commercial traffic, normal transport has not yet been fully restored due to ongoing strikes.
Before Friday, Tehran had claimed that any attempt to cross the strait via the route determined by the UN International Maritime Organization would be “unacceptable and completely dangerous” and that the ships should coordinate with Iran.
