US President Donald Trump issued a stern warning to Iran on Sunday, declaring that if the US is attacked in any means, it will unleash its army would possibly “at ranges by no means seen earlier than.” The assertion got here as Trump sought to distance the USA from Israel’s current huge airstrikes on Iran, which have been performed below Operation Rising Lion, leading to rising tensions throughout the Center East area.In a publish on Reality Social, Trump wrote a direct message to the Khamenei-led Islamic Republic: “The US had nothing to do with the assault on Iran, tonight. If we’re attacked in any means, form or type by Iran, the complete energy and would possibly of the US Armed Forces will come down on you at ranges by no means seen earlier than. Nonetheless, we will simply get a deal completed between Iran and Israel, and finish this bloody battle!!!”Trump’s place on Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, nonetheless, has shifted a number of instances over the previous few days. Simply hours earlier than the Israeli offensive, he had referred to as for a diplomatic resolution with Tehran.However after the Israeli airstrikes concluded, the president appeared to credit score his personal previous warnings to Iran, as a build-up trigger for Iran’s nuclear aspirations.“Two months in the past I gave Iran a 60-day ultimatum to ‘make a deal,'” Trump wrote on Reality Social. “At this time is day 61. I informed them what to do, however they simply couldn’t get there. Now they’ve, maybe, a second likelihood!”In one other in depth publish earlier, Trump claimed he had warned Iran in “the strongest of phrases”, asserting that Iranian commanders have been caught off guard: “They didn’t know what was about to occur. They’re all DEAD now, and it’ll solely worsen!”He added a remaining enchantment for de-escalation: “There has already been nice loss of life and destruction, however there may be nonetheless time to make this slaughter… come to an finish. Iran should make a deal, earlier than there may be nothing left.”Israeli airstrikes killed six of Iran’s prime nuclear scientists and several other senior army commanders. Israeli officers defended the operation as a “preemptive strike” geared toward dismantling Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure.
