Hours after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the White House is “afflicted by mental retardation,” President Trump threatened the country with “great and overwhelming force.”
As geopolitical posturing and tension between the United States and Iran continues, Trump sent out a tweet threatening the regime with direct military force and even “obliteration” should it attack “anything American.”
“Iran leadership doesn’t understand the words ‘nice’ or ‘compassion,’ they never have. Sadly, the thing they do understand is Strength and Power, and the USA is by far the most powerful Military Force in the world, with 1.5 Trillion Dollars invested over the last two years alone.
“The wonderful Iranian people are suffering, and for no reason at all. Their leadership spends all of its money on Terror, and little on anything else. The U.S. has not forgotten Iran’s use of IED’s & EFP’s (bombs), which killed 2000 Americans, and wounded many more.
“Iran’s very ignorant and insulting statement, put out today, only shows that they do not understand reality. Any attack by Iran on anything American will be met with great and overwhelming force. In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration. No more John Kerry & Obama!” Trump tweeted.
….The wonderful Iranian people are suffering, and for no reason at all. Their leadership spends all of its money on Terror, and little on anything else. The U.S. has not forgotten Iran’s use of IED’s & EFP’s (bombs), which killed 2000 Americans, and wounded many more…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2019
….Iran’s very ignorant and insulting statement, put out today, only shows that they do not understand reality. Any attack by Iran on anything American will be met with great and overwhelming force. In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration. No more John Kerry & Obama!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2019
Trump has made similar threats over Twitter to other world leaders after they made hostile comments about the mental capacity of him or his administration. In September 2017, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un referred to Trump as a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard.” Trump responded with a tweet calling Kim a madman and saying North Korea would be “tested like never before!”
Tension between the U.S. and Iran has been escalating, coming to a head after Iran shot down a $130 million U.S. drone over the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. was fully prepared to strike multiple targets in Iran in retaliation, but Trump canceled the operation at the last moment after he said he learned that around 150 people would die in the ensuing attacks.
The U.S. announced last week that it was sending an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East after a pair of oil tankers were attacked in the Gulf of Oman.
