Trump to Iran: ‘Make a deal or face brutal attacks’

Israel launched a wide-ranging preemptive strike on Iran in the early hours of Friday, targeting military facilities and nuclear sites across the country and eliminating three high-ranking Iranian military officers.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

US President Donald Trump took to social media to urge Iran to “make a deal” and be more willing to compromise during nuclear negotiations or face more “brutal attacks” like Israel’s strikes on its nuclear facilities early on Friday.

Israel launched a wide-ranging preemptive strike on Iran in the early hours of Friday, targeting military facilities and nuclear sites across the country. Officials described the operation as an effort to eliminate an imminent nuclear threat.

In response, Iran launched 100 UAVs against Israel, which Israel’s military shot down.

Trump posted following these events, “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.”

Referring to the death of Iran’s highest-ranking military officer, the head of its elite Revolutionary Guards Corps, and a former national security chief in the strikes.

Trump wrote, “They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse.”

He added, “Iran must make a deal before there is nothing left and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire.”

Trump warned that if Iran continued to turn down proposals to prevent it from building a nuclear weapon, the Islamic Republic would face military actions that “would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told.”

“I gave Iran a 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 couldn’t get it done,” he wrote.

Although Trump didn’t say whether the US would also join in the military actions, he boasted of the strength of US weapons. He indicated he would continue providing arms to Israel to deal with the Iranian threat.

He wrote, “The United States makes the best and the most lethal military equipment anywhere in the world BY FAR. Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come – And they know how to use it,” he writes.