READ MORE: Trump vows revenge after US troops killed as Iran strikes continue
“America will avenge their deaths and deliver the most punishing blow to the terrorists who have waged war against basically, civilisation,” Trump said, framing the conflict as a broader struggle against extremism.
The President issued a direct ultimatum to Iran’s security forces, naming the Revolutionary Guard and the military police. “These intolerable threats will not continue any longer. I once again urge the Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian military police, to lay down your arms and receive full immunity or face certain death,” he said.
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With midterm elections approaching in November, several Republican allies have voiced concern about the political and strategic costs of a sustained war.
“We’re undertaking this massive operation not merely to ensure security for our own time and place, but for our children and their children, just as our ancestors have done for us many, many years ago,” Trump said.
“This is the duty and the burden of a free people. These actions are right and they are necessary to ensure that Americans will never have to face a radical, bloodthirsty terrorist regime armed with nuclear weapons.”
