Trump threatens “greater” strikes on Iran

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that Iran will face more military strikes if peace does not come quickly.

Addressing the nation Saturday evening, Trump said that Iran’s key nuclear facilities had been “completely and totally obliterated,” and that future attacks will be “far greater and a lot easier.”

“If peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill. Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes,” he said.

Trump said that he decided a long time ago not to let Iran gain a nuclear weapon and that without peace, there will be “tragedy” for Iran that will far exceed what’s taken place.

“War starts right now,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said after Trump’s announcement of U.S. successful attacks on three Iranian nuclear facilities of “Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan.”

Iran had evacuated these three nuclear sites “a while ago,” said Hassan Abedini, deputy political director of Iran’s state broadcaster.

Appearing on state-run television, he said that Iran “didn’t suffer a major blow because the materials had already been taken out.”

Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization confirmed the U.S. attacks, but said that its work will not be stopped.

“The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran assures the great Iranian nation that despite the evil conspiracies of its enemies, with the efforts of thousands of its revolutionary and motivated scientists and experts, it will not allow the development of this national industry, which is the result of the blood of nuclear martyrs, to be stopped,” the agency said in a statement issued after Trump’s announcement of the U.S. attacks.

Xinhua