Donald Trump threatens Iran with ‘obliteration’
Trump warns Iran of ’obliteration like you’ve never seen before’ https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/23/trump-obliteration-iran-nuclear-weapons-pursuit-1376744, By MARTIN MATISHAK, 06/23/2019
President Donald Trump warned the United States may launch a devastating military attack on Iran unless it comes to the negotiating table and drops its bid to develop nuclear weapons.
“I’m not looking for war, and if there is, it’ll be obliteration like you’ve never seen before. But I’m not looking to do that. But you can’t have a nuclear weapon. You want to talk? Good. Otherwise you can have a bad economy for the next three years,” Trump said during an interview with NBC’s “Meet The Press” airing Sunday.
The president said he’d be willing to sit down with Iranian officials without preconditions.
The comments, made during an interview taped Friday, came the same day Trump confirmed on Twitter that he called off a retaliatory strike on Iran at the last minute Thursday night. He said he decided that the potential cost of human lives was “not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone.”
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Thursday it had shot down an American drone, claiming it had entered Iranian airspace, a claim disputed by the U.S., which has maintained the drone was over international waters. Both countries have since produced what they say is evidence supporting their respective positions.
Trump said the U.S. had a “modest but pretty, pretty heavy attack schedule,” but planes were not in the air when he called off the attack.
The commander in chief said the response now should be increased sanctions on Iran’s economy.
“We’re increasing the sanctions now,” adding the country’s economy has already been “shattered.”
Trump said he believes Iranian officials want to negotiate and that any deal would have to be about nuclear weapons. He also claimed that Iran had violated the nuclear agreement struck by the Obama administration and other world powers. International inspectors have repeatedly declared that Iran has complied with the 2015 deal.
“They cannot have a nuclear weapon,” he said. “They cannot have a nuclear weapon. They’d use it. And they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon.”
Trump also disputed that he sent a message to Iranian leaders through a third country, saying he did not want conflict, dubbing it “fake news.”
However, he also declined to send a message during the interview to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“Wouldn’t be much different than that message,” Trump said.
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Christina is sane. Arclight is sane. The politicians in America, europe, australia and elsewhere are insane. The monsters behind thr Trump thing, are borderline psychotic, most of the time. Most people are oblivious. The religious idiots appear to have some compartmentalized sanity. They blow it when they open their mouths, about most things.
There was no good reason to abrogate the nuclear agreement, with Iran. The continued sanctions, and deadly pressure on irans economy and people, could very easily spark the closing of athe Straights of Hormuz.
There are very few people who follow this, who do not get that. Closing the straights of Hormuz, will lead to nuclear war. Nuclear war will be over, before we even know what happened.
There are the demented wackos: the propagandists, the psychotic preppers, the rascist-racist ideologues who say they care about nuclear. All insane. They say a nuclear war is ok with them.
Closing the Straights of Hormuz will lead to nuclear war. America has been slowly strangling iran, for 35 or more year. Iran is surrounded by American Military bases and ships with missiles and nuclear weapons.