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2025-02-05 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Trump orders Iran to be ‘obliterated’ if it kills him, but open to meeting its leader
Both the carrot and the stick in one brief statement.
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump says he’s given his advisers instructions to obliterate Iran if it assassinates him.

“If they did that they would be obliterated,” Trump says in an exchange with reporters while signing an executive order calling for the US government to impose maximum pressure on Tehran. “I’ve left instructions if they do it, they get obliterated, there won’t be anything left.”

The Justice Department announced federal charges in November that an Iranian plot to kill Trump before the presidential election had been thwarted.

The department alleged Iranian officials had instructed Farhad Shakeri, 51, in September to focus on surveilling and ultimately assassinating Trump. Shakeri is still at large in Iran.

Trump also says he would be willing to meet with his Iranian counterpart to try to persuade Iran to give up Tehran’s perceived efforts to develop a nuclear weapon.

Trump also says Iran is too close to having a nuclear weapon and that the United States has the right to block the sale of Iranian oil to other nations. # id) ?>
Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-05 2025-02-05 03:43|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1797 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

1 Trump is using very imprecise language in a matter of utmost importance.

A President can not issue binding orders to his successor.

Should Iran stage a deadly attack the highest ranking survivor in the line of succession would be the successor President with all powers, immediately.

A logical move to bolster deterrence would be to issue a joint declaration of all persons in the line of succession that they will order an overwhelming and devastating retaliatory strike if Iran attacks not only the US government but the US in general.

This should normally go without saying but after 9/11 this isn't true anymore.

As for the meeting, I'd hope it would be in the spirit of this:
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-02-05 22:02||   2025-02-05 22:02|| Front Page Top

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