While calling for Iran to surrender, President Donald Trump said in a social media post, “We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran.”
“Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured ‘stuff.’ Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA,” Trump wrote.
Trump calls for Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender,’ calls Khamenei ‘easy target’
President Donald Trump wrote a threatening post on his social media platform saying the U.S. knows where Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is hiding, calling him an “easy target” and calling for Iran’s “unconditional surrender.”
“We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding,” Trump wrote. “He is an easy target, but is safe there — We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now. But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin.”
Sirens sound in Israel
Sirens sounded in several areas of Israel following the military’s identification of incoming missiles, the Israel Defense Forces said in a release.
It is now clear, and people in Israel have been allowed to leave shelters, according to the IDF.
The time between the incoming announcement and the announcement to leave shelter was about 20 minutes.
Iran not building nuclear weapon but remains ‘very close,’ senior administration official says
Iran is not currently building a nuclear weapon, a senior Trump administration official told ABC News.
“Just because they’re not building right now, doesn’t mean they aren’t ‘very close’ as POTUS said on Air Force One,” the official said on Tuesday.
“All of the other points [U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard] made outside of the singular statement that ‘Iran is not building’ a nuclear weapon, points to them being very close to building one,” the official said.
In March, Gabbard testified to congress that the intelligence community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamanei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.”
“Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons,” Gabbard added.
“Iran continues to seek expansion of its influence in the Middle East, despite the degradation to its proxies and defenses during the Gaza conflict. Iran has developed and maintains ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and UAVs, including systems capable of striking U.S. targets and allies in the region,” Gabbard said.
An International Atomic Energy Agency report in June concluded that it had “no credible indications of an ongoing, undeclared structured nuclear programme.”
