Subscribing is the best way to get our best stories immediately.
U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened Iran with “very severe” attacks, warning that additional targets could be struck as tensions intensify in the Middle East.
In a message posted on his social media platform Truth Social, the US president claimed that Iran had apologised to its Middle Eastern neighbours and “surrendered” to them by pledging not to carry out further attacks.
Trump said the promise came only because of what he described as relentless military pressure from the United States and Israel.
Earlier, Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian said in a recorded message that the country’s interim leadership had approved a halt to attacks on neighbouring states — provided that Iran itself was not attacked from their territory.
However, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps soon warned that if strikes on Iran continued, all US and Israeli military bases and interests would become “primary targets”.
In his post, Trump signalled that further military action could follow.
He wrote that because of Iran’s “bad behaviour”, the United States was considering striking areas and groups that had not previously been targeted, warning they could face “total destruction and certain death”.