Speaking on Fox News, Trump says Iran has been put on notice that any killing of protesters will trigger a “very hard" US response, as protests intensify across Iran.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday night reiterated his warning that the US would hit Iran “very hard" if its leadership kills protesters. In an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, Trump said, “What they've done in the past, they've started shooting the hell out of people. And all of a sudden, people without any weapons whatsoever standing there and get machine guns, gunning them down, or they grab, take them to prisons and then hang them and kill them.
So they played rough. And I said, if they do that, we're going to hit them very hard. We're going to hit them hard." Trump added, “We're ready to do it. If they do that, we're going to hit them hard. And so far, for the most part, there's been some of it, but for the most part, they haven't. There have been people killed. Some of them, the crowds are so big that some of them have had, were stomped on. Literally. It was terrible."
“We'll see what happens. There's so many people protesting. Nobody's ever seen anything like what's happening right now. But I have put Iran on notice that if they start shooting at them..if they do anything bad to these people, we're going to hit them very hard." Trump earlier on Thursday reaffirmed his backing for Iranian protesters as civilian unrest continues across the country. “I have let them know that if they start killing people, which they tend to do during their riots… we’re going to hit them very hard," Trump said in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt. (Read More)
