Trump threatens Iran’s chief, calls for ‘unconditional surrender’

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned Iranian chief Ali Khamenei that he’s an “easy target” and “our patience is wearing thin,” ahead of difficult Tehran give up in its struggle towards Israel.

“We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“He is an easy target, but is safe there – We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now,” he wrote after pointing out “total control” over Iran’s airspace.

“But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin.”

Trump in a next put up made transparent what he does need from Iran: “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”

The risk from the U.S. president got here two days after information retailers reported that Trump vetoed a plan by means of Israel to assassinate the ayatollah.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday downplayed his reported confrontation with Trump over Khamenei, pronouncing, “I wouldn’t rush to conclusions.”

The Trump management has prior to now insisted that the U.S. was once indirectly enthusiastic about what Israel known as a preemptive strike towards Iran on Friday, which kicked off 5 days of missile hearth between the 2 regional powers.

But Trump’s newest feedback recommend the U.S. is now a minimum of prepared to threaten direct army intervention because it backs Israel’s effort to deliver Tehran to heel.

The Pentagon, in the meantime, is transferring extra warships and any other plane service to the Middle East, NBC News reported Tuesday. The U.S. prior to now deployed army property to the area to lend a hand Israel shoot down Iranian missiles and projectiles, in step with NBC.

Trump is predicted to carry a gathering within the Situation Room on Tuesday afternoon to talk about the Israel-Iran struggle together with his best nationwide safety advisors.

On Monday, Trump unexpectedly returned to Washington, D.C., from Canada, the place he had traveled for a gathering of the Group of Seven international locations.

Before he left, Trump criticized the G7 for kicking Russia out of the gang in 2014 after its annexation of Crimea.

Trump teed up Tuesday’s risk towards Khamenei with an previous social media put up pointing out, “We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran.”

Tehran “had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured ‘stuff,'” Trump wrote.

“Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA.”

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