President Donald Trump issued an online warning to Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, stating that the U.S. is aware of his exact location and referring to him as an ‘easy target.’
The president’s bold message appeared online shortly after he returned from G7 meetings in Canada. He convened with his top security advisors in the White House Situation Room, sparking discussions about potential escalations between Israel and Iran.
‘We know exactly where the so-called “Supreme Leader” is hiding,’ Trump shared 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. But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin. Thank you for your attention to this matter!’
That came moments after another post where Trump also used the term ‘we’ to describe the security situation over Iran, amid a massive four-day bombing campaign by Israel using American-made weaponry.
‘We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured “stuff.” Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA,’ Trump wrote.
In yet another post, Trump wrote simply in all-caps: ‘UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!’ That was the ultimatum that the allies imposed on Nazi Germany and Japan during World War II.
It came amid speculation about whether the U.S. would intervene to help Israel take out Iran’s nuclear facilities that are buried deep under ground, with the help of ‘bunker buster’ munitions.
President Donald Trump issued a post calling for ‘UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!’ Earlier he issued a chilling threat to Ayatollah Khamenei
His chilling online threats came came hours after Trump blasted French President Emmanuel Macron for having suggested he had put forward a ceasefire plan for the conflict.
Trump said the reality was the opposite. But when pressed by the Daily Mail, Trump didn’t name any new steps the U.S. was taking to help Isreal as it battles the Islamic Republic.
‘An end. A real end. Not a cease fire. An end,’ he said.
‘I’m not looking at ceasefire. We’re looking at better than cease fire,’ Trump told reporters on Air Force One.
He was blunt in his assessment on Iran’s nuclear program.
‘Remember, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. It’s very simple. Not to go too deep into it, but they just can’t have a nuclear weapon.
He also predicted Isreal wouldn’t let up.
‘You’re going to find out over the next two days. You’re going to find out. Nobody’s slowed up so far,’ he said.
President Trump said early Tuesday morning that he wants “a real end” to Iran’s nuclear problem, with Tehran “giving up entirely” its enrichment activities. He said he was not just working toward a ceasefire to end the war between Iran and Israel, which has claimed at least two dozen lives in Israel and hundreds in Iran as it enters its fifth day.
‘I didn’t say I was looking for a ceasefire,’ Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force One after cutting short his time at the G7 summit in Canada.
Earlier, the president said on his Truth Social platform that French President Emmanuel Macron had “mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to D.C. to work on a ‘cease fire’ between Israel and Iran. Wrong! He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that.”
‘We know exactly where the so-called “Supreme Leader” is hiding,’ Trump posted on Truth Social’
Trump spoke to reporters after he flew home early from the G7 summit
In a late night post to Truth Social, Trump (pictured right with Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney center) angrily denied Macron’s (pictured left) statement to the press, revealing his early exit from the G7 Summit was for ‘much bigger’ reasons than a ceasefire deal
A fire blazes in the oil depots of Shahran, northwest of Tehran
US aircraft have been seen deploying over the UK as tensions rise in the Middle East
Mr. Trump predicted that Israel would not slow its assault on Iran, which has largely decapitated the Islamic republic’s military command and inflicted significant damage to its controversial nuclear program.
‘You’re going to find out over the next two days. You’re going to find out. Nobody’s slowed up so far.’
‘They just can’t have a nuclear weapon,’ Trump said of Iran.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of options at his disposal. With ‘complete’ control over Iran’s skies, the U.S. could assist Isreal’s bombing campaign, perhaps even by dropping a ‘bunker buster’ munition from one of its fleet of bombers capable of carrying them.
Trump on Sunday said it was ‘possible’ the U.S. would get involved in the conflict.
‘We’re not involved in it. It’s possible we could get involved. But we are not at this moment involved,’ Trump told ABC.
There were multiple reports this weekend that Trump had nixed an Israeli request to take out Ayatollah Khamenei.
In his comments to reporters Trump declined to confirm any new threat to U.S. troops or facilities.
‘We have great people that know how to protect themselves… We’ll come down so hard if they do anything to our people.’
There was been mounting that the U.S. might be preparing to strike, even before Trump’s latest comments.
The Pentagon has sent more than 40 additional US jets are said to have been sent to the UK and Europe.
They are thought to include stealth bombers and air-to-air refuellers – which could be critical for any operation in the Middle East.
The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier group headed to the region from the South China Sea Monday.
Vice President JD Vance has issued comments that appear to brace Trump supporters for possible military action.
‘He may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment,’ Vance said. ‘That decision ultimately belongs to the president.’
Vance also praised Trump for taking ‘remarkable restraint’ in focusing American troops on the defense of American interests in the Middle East.
