US President Donald Trump issued another threat to Tehran on Tuesday, stating “a whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again”.
Previously, the US president has warned that unless Tehran reopened the Strait of Hormuz, the US would unleash what he called the “complete demolition” of Iran’s critical infrastructure overnight on Wednesday.
“I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.
“However, now that we have complete and total regime change, where different, smarter, and less radicalised minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, who knows?”
“We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world,” Trump said. “47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God bless the great people of Iran,” he concluded.
Trump had threatened to target Iranian infrastructure unless Tehran agreed a deal to end the war on Tuesday, saying he was “considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil.”
Meanwhile, Iranian officials have claimed that at least two bridges, railway infrastructure and a key highway were hit and damaged on Tuesday as part of a wave of US-Israeli air strikes on infrastructure targets.
