The strikes have triggered fears that the Middle East risks descending into another catastrophic regional war.
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Friday condemned Israel and warned that “the Zionist regime has prepared a bitter and painful fate for itself.”
Trump said he “gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal” to shutter its nuclear program, but “no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done.”
“I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come,” he added.
Iran’s “hardliners” did not heed warnings, and “they are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!” he wrote.
In a later post on Truth Social, Trump added he had previously given them a “60 day ultimatum” to make the deal, and as “today is day 61”, he said, “now they have, perhaps, a second chance.”