US President Donald Trump claimed that “Iran is officially a Failed Nation” in a Monday post on Truth Social, the day after the US struck Iranian military assets for the first time in weeks.
“They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, they have no currency, they are not paying their soldiers or police, Inflation is at 300%, and their leadership is in total disarray and incapable of properly representing the country,” Trump added.
He continued to claim that the only thing Tehran still has is “fake news from the USA,” a willingness to kill anti-regime protestors, and “a good line of b******t.”
In reference to the killing of anti-regime protestors, Trump claimed that over 100,000 have been killed and asserted that the regime in Tehran must be tried for war crimes.
Trump says US will respond to strikes on military assets in Jordan
Also on Monday, Trump said that the US will respond to Iran’s overnight missile attack against American military assets in Jordan, telling Fox News reporter Trey Yingst during a phone call that the US is “going to hit them hard.”
He confirmed to Yingst that all but one of the missiles were intercepted by US air defense systems, and the one unintercepted missile was allowed to pass through Jordanian airspace after it was determined that it would not hit anything significant.
Tehran launched the strikes after the US struck two launchers on Iran’s Larak Island that were seen preparing to fire towards the Strait of Hormuz.