President Donald Trump said the US will strike Iran again tonight and tomorrow, describing Iranians as 'deranged people,' and declined to discuss Israeli involvement in the ongoing strikes, according to Israeli media reports.
President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against Iran again on Monday evening, calling Iranians "deranged people" and vowing to strike "tonight and tomorrow," according to a report by Israeli news outlet Ynet at 23:21 Jerusalem. The new statement adds a derogatory characterization to the president's repeated promises of force, while he again declined to discuss Israeli involvement in the ongoing US strikes.
The latest remarks follow a series of statements from Trump tonight. At 23:15 Jerusalem, Trump told Israeli journalist Amit Segal (N12) that he would not answer whether Israel was involved, and promised "powerful" strikes on Iran tonight and tomorrow. At 23:18, The Zioneer reported that same statement. Minutes later, at 23:20, an unverified social media report quoted Trump as saying the US would strike Iran "hard today and tomorrow" and describing a memorandum of understanding as a test Iran failed. The new Ynet report, the fourth statement from Trump in roughly six minutes, includes the first use of explicit derogatory language toward Iranians in tonight's sequence.
As The Zioneer has reported over recent weeks, Trump has steadily escalated his threats against Iran, warning of "hard daily strikes" (June 10), stating the US "hasn't hit Iran hard enough yet" (June 11), and outlining plans for seizing Kharg Island (June 11). On July 8, he called Iranians "scum" and said the US "hit them 20 times more than before." The current statement continues that pattern.
The new statement is attributed to a single Israeli media outlet (Ynet). No independent confirmation of the exact wording has been published by other outlets as of this writing. The degree of Israeli involvement in the US strikes remains unclear, as Trump has consistently declined to address the question.
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