Once again, President Trump referenced Iran, repeating on Thursday evening (01/29) that he “hopes he won’t need” to order strikes on Iran, where the US has been brandishing the threat of military intervention recently.
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As Donald Trump characteristically stated while addressing the press in Washington: “We are strong. We are economically strong. We are militarily strong (…) And now we have a naval force heading to this country called Iran. And I hope we won’t need to use this force.”
Trump also said he had communicated with Iran, to which he conveyed two messages. He didn’t say whether the contacts were direct or indirect and at what level, while he didn’t rule out military action against Tehran.
When asked by reporters if he had conversations with Iran in recent days or if he plans to, Donald Trump answered both that he had and that he plans to. To a follow-up question from journalists about the message he sent to Tehran, he replied that he conveyed two: “First, no nuclear weapons, second, stop killing protesters.” He even explained that Iranians during recent anti-government unrest were killing protesters “by the thousands,” the first time the acknowledgment of thousands of deaths in Iran has been heard from the American president.
“You know, I stopped 837 executions two weeks ago,” the American president noted, repeating a claim he had made previously. In conclusion, he said: “They need to do something,” referring to the Iranians, and commented that “no one has seen anything like this” referring to the scope of the unrest.
