U.S. President Donald Trump issued a warning to Iran on Friday following Israeli attacks, urging the Gulf country to agree to a nuclear deal with Washington “before there is nothing left.”
Trump made these comments with an early morning post hours after Israel pounded Iranian military and nuclear sites in what it calls “Operation Rising Lion.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described opening strikes against Iran “very successful,” and claimed that Israel destroyed the Natanz plant.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal.
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“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.”
Trump said he told Iranians of the lethality of coming Israeli attacks with U.S. weapons.
“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.”
However, Trump noted, “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! ”
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Trump did not name any Iranian officials who might have opposed the U.S.-proposed deal but Tehran lost a military commander and prominent scientists in opening Israeli salvos.
In a major blow to its military preparedness, Tehran has acknowledged that the commander of its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Major General Hossein Salami was killed in an Israeli attack early Friday.
The Israeli strikes also killed two nuclear scientists including Mohammad-Mehdi Tehranchi, a nuclear scientist and president of the Islamic Azad University.
Another scientist Fereydoun Abbasi, who was also a nuclear scientist and former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, was also killed.
The U.S. and Iran held several rounds of negotiations and Trump had warned Tehran that if it did not agree to the proposed U.S. deal it will have to face consequences.
Still, the US president in his Friday post said, Iran could make the devastation come to an end by agreeing to the U.S. deal on its nuclear program.
“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!”
