Trump’s dire warning to Iran: ‘A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again’

President Donald Trump posted a dire warning on Truth Social Tuesday morning that Iran—one of the oldest civilizations on Earth, a country of 90 million people—may be destroyed within hours.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump wrote. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”

The post landed a little less than 12 hours before Trump’s 8 p.m. ET deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and came after the U.S. conducted more than 50 strikes on military targets on Kharg Island early Tuesday, according to two U.S. officials cited by the Wall Street Journal. Kharg is Iran’s main oil export hub, responsible for shuttling through 20% of the world’s oil. 

Trump then pivoted in the same post to suggest that Iran’s regime has already collapsed. “Now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe........

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