Trump uppmanar iranier att hålla sig inomhus: ”Bomber kommer att falla överallt”
Donald Trump bekräftar att USA är inblandat i morgonens storskaliga attack mot Iran. I ett långt videoklipp på Truth Social lovar Trump att utplåna landets roboatarsenal och stoppa utvecklingen av kärnvapen.
– Det är ett väldigt enkelt buskap: De kommer aldrig ha kärnvapen.
Presidenten kritiserar Irans samarbete med Hizbollah och Hamas, samt den hårdföra inställningen mot det egna folket. USA kommer inte längre att acceptera sådan ”massterror”, säger Trump.
Enligt uppgifter till Wall Street Journal och CNN kommer Israels och USA:s attack mot Iran att pågå i flera dagar. I talet uppmanar Trump alla iranier att hålla sig inomhus under de kommande dagarna och söka skydd.
– Det är väldigt farligt utomhus. Bomber kommer att falla överallt. När vi är färdiga: Ta över er regering. Det här kommer förmodligen att bli er enda chans på generationer, säger Trump.
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A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime. A vicious group of very hard, terrible people. Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world.
For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted Death to America and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder, targeting the United States, our troops and the innocent people in many, many countries. Among the regime’s very first acts was to back a violent takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding dozens of American hostages for 444 days. In 1983, Iran’s proxies carried out the marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American military personnel.
In 2000, they knew and were probably involved with the attack on the USS Cole. Many died. Iranian forces killed and maimed hundreds of American service members in Iraq. The regime’s proxies have continued to launch countless attacks against American forces stationed in the Middle East in recent years, as well as U.S. naval and commercial vessels and international shipping lines. It’s been mass terror, and we’re not going to put up with it any longer.
From Lebanon to Yemen and Syria to Iraq, the regime has armed, trained and funded terrorist militias that have soaked the earth with blood and guts. And it was Iran’s proxy, Hamas, that launched the monstrous Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, slaughtering more than 1,000 innocent people, including 46 Americans, while taking 12 of our citizens hostage. It was brutal, something like the world has never seen before.
Iran is the world’s number one state sponsor of terror, and just recently killed tens of thousands of its own citizens on the street as they protested. It has always been the policy of the United States, in particular my administration, that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon. I’ll say it again, they can never have a nuclear weapon. That is why in Operation Midnight Hammer last June, we obliterated the regime’s nuclear program at Fort Doe, Natanz and Isfahan. After that attack, we warned them never to resume their malicious pursuit of nuclear weapons, and we sought repeatedly to make a deal. We tried. They wanted to do it. They didn’t want to do it. Again they wanted to do it. They didn’t want to do it. They didn’t know what was happening. They just wanted to practice evil. But Iran refused, just as it has for decades and decades.
