Trump demands Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’, as he weighs US involvement in Israel-Iran war
*Such demand is unreasonable - Supreme Leader *Iran's acting in self-defence - Turkiye *Let Israel fight its battle by itself - Nigeria's Fani-Kayode
The United States President Donald Trump has demanded that Iran makes and ‘unconditional surrender’ in the ongoing retaliatory attacks it carries out against Israel, which Turkiye has described as Tehran’s action taken in self-defence.
Asked during a press conference as to whether or it he would get the United States involved as Netanyau had wished by striking Iran, Trump said “I may do it, I may not do it.”
The US president added, “Nobody knows what I want to do. But I can say this: Iran’s got a lot of trouble and wants to negotiate.”
The Iranians responded by saying they would not “grovel at the gates of the White House.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, in response, warned Trump of “irreparable harm” if the US joins the Israeli attacks.
Reacting to Trump’s demands for Iran to surrender, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said, “This is not reasonable speech. Anyone who knows the Iranian people and their history would not address them with the language of surrender.
“American intervention in this matter will be 100% harmful to the United States itself, and they will pay a price far heavier than anything Iran might face.”
Tulsi Gabbard said in March that Iran was “not building a nuclear weapon”, according to a US intelligence assessment.
Donald Trump’s insistence that Iran is developing a nuclear bomb contradicts an earlier assessment by the CIA that Tehran was no closer to building a nuke.
In March, Trump’s handpicked Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified before Congress that the intelligence community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon”, and that Iran’s Supreme Leader “has not authorised the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003”.
“I don’t care what she said,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday June 17 when asked about Gabbard’s assessment.
He maintained his view that Iran was “very close” to developing its own nuclear weapon.
When Donald Trump spoke earlier today, he also briefly addressed internal tensions within his MAGA movement over the possibility of US strikes in Iran.
Some of his followers have expressed scepticism over the US become entangled in another Middle Eastern war, with some pointing out that he campaigned heavily on keeping the US out of foreign entanglements.
“My supporters are for me,” he told reporters. “My supporters don’t want to see Iran have a nuclear weapon.”
“Nobody thinks it’s okay,” he added.
He also claimed that conservative commentator Tucker Carlson – who had a fiery exchange with Senator Ted Cruz over Iran – called to apologise.
What is clear as at the tie of filing this report is Iran’s confident position t make the United States of America face a consequences far unprecedented should Trump attempts, at all to join the Israeli strikes.
It makes the situation more interesting as many commentators on the matter believe that America will not be willing to be entangled taking sides with Israel in war with Iran any time not even now.
Former Minister of Aviation in Nigeria, Femi Fani-Kayode, has aso asked Trump to steer clear and let Israel fight its own battle that it started by itself.
