United States President, Donald Trump, has warned Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to be “very worried” as tensions between the US and Iran continue to rise.
In an interview with NBC News on Wednesday, Trump said, “I would say he should be very worried. Yeah, he should be.”
The warning comes as the US builds up military resources around Iran, with Trump considering possible action against the regime.
Although the president has not ruled out a diplomatic solution, planned negotiations between the two countries later this week appeared uncertain, as both sides work to agree on the terms of the talks.
Trump, who has threatened strikes against Iran in recent weeks amid a crackdown on street protests, said his approach has helped support demonstrators, even without direct intervention.
“We’ve had their back. And look, that country is a mess right now because of us. We went in, we wiped out their nuclear,” he said, referring to the June bombing run on three Iranian nuclear facilities.
“If we didn’t take out that nuclear, we wouldn’t have peace in the Middle East, because the Arab countries could have never done that. They were very, very afraid of Iran. They’re not afraid of Iran anymore,” he added.
Trump also claimed he had been briefed that Iran was attempting to restart its nuclear programme at alternative locations.
“They tried to go back to the site. They weren’t even able to get near it,” he said. “There was total obliteration. But they were thinking about starting a new site in a different part of the country. We found out about it. I said, you do that, we’re going to do bad things to you.”
(CNN)
