US President Donald Trump is very confident that Israel would not let up in its bombing campaign against Iran and indicated a decisive moment in that campaign was imminent, though he made clear he expected Israel to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities without US help.
But the White House had sought to clarify that they were not involved, issuing a statement through Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Israel had carried out the strikes unilaterally.
And yet on Tuesday, Trump suggested on his social media platform Truth Social that the United States was involved to some degree after all. "We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran", Trump had said, noting that American equipment was being used.
In another post, he even wrote that the United States knows the location of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there – We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now".
This is the person who promised throughout both his first and second terms in the Oval Office to get the United States out of its “forever wars” in the Middle East!
Amidst Trump’s menacing rhetoric, the Iranian supreme leader reiterates that Iran will harshly retaliate against Israel’s attacks.
“We must give a strong response to the terrorist Zionist regime”, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote in English on X. “We will show the Zionists no mercy”.
The stage is set for an even wider escalation, with the US now likely to join Israel against Iran.
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