Alarm among military observers after president says ‘whole civilization will die tonight’ if Iran ignores demandsUS politics live – latest updatesSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailDonald Trump’s Tuesday morning comments threatening that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” in Iran have raised alarms among…
Military officers could face a moral dilemma if President Trump follows through on threats to bomb Iran's civilian infrastructure, military law experts tell Axios. The big picture: Established procedures and rules of warfare dictate that civilian infrastructure is protected from an attack, and though the Joint Chiefs' chair says the U.S. military has…
A retired general is calling President Donald Trump's latest threat a "war crime" if he were to follow through on the pledge. Trump posted on TruthSocial Tuesday morning, "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change,…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday called on Republican members of Congress to “stop the madness” after President Trump delivered an ominous threat toward Iran. Jeffries responded to Trump’s Truth Social post from earlier in the day, when he wrote that unless Iran does “something revolutionarily wonderful,” then a “whole civilization…
Former Vice President Kamala Harris slammed President Donald Trump’s threats to “commit war crimes” against Iran. Trump demanded that the Iranian regime “open the f***in’ Strait” of Hormuz or “all Hell will reign down,” setting a deadline of Tuesday at 8 p.m. The president’s threats are drawing major pushback from Democratic lawmakers, calling it “unhinged”…
Political figures on opposite ends of the spectrum are finding themselves as unlikely allies in calling to invoke the 25th Amendment against President Trump after he said Iranian civilization will die Tuesday night.
The United Nations is warning Donald Trump against further escalation in the Iran war after he threatened Tuesday that “[a] whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” “Even wars have rules,” the U.N.’s official X account posted along with a link to its human rights office. “The Geneva Conventions protect civilians in conflict and…
President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iran’s “whole civilization” ahead of his imposed deadline in the ongoing war is galvanizing Democratic opposition and escalating their calls for the US Congress to return before next week.
