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President Donald Trump absolutely tore into Iran in an early morning social media post Friday, blaming the regime for failing to make a nuclear deal and threatening, “It will only get worse!”
The president took to his Truth Social platform to rail against Iran, hours after Israel launched a bold air campaign involving 200 warplanes striking 100 Iranian targets. Among them were an Iranian nuclear facility, major air defense systems, and senior military leadership.
In his Truth Social post, Trump said he gave Iran “chance after chance” to make a deal ahead of Israel’s military operation and urged them to “just do it.”
“Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen,” Trump added. “They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!”
I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. 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. 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!
The Trump post marked a decidedly different tone from the White House, as the Wall Street Journal’s Yaroslav Trofimov noted Friday morning:
After the attack, Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed the U.S. was not involved with the strike.
