An Iranian television mouthpiece has warned up to 50,000 American soldiers will be returned to Washington in ‘coffins’ after Donald Trump raised the possibility of regime change in Tehran.
State TV anchor Mehdi Khanalizadeh accused Trump of choosing to ‘spill the blood of your soldiers’, before adding: ‘The US president in the Oval Office chose to take delivery of the coffins of up to 50,000 US soldiers in Washington.’
It comes as Iran warns the United States should expect ‘heavy consequences’ for striking its nuclear sites, issuing a threat that its entry into the conflict with Israel will ‘expand the scope of legitimate targets’.
Trump declared last night that ‘monumental damage’ has been done ‘to all nuclear sites in Iran’ as he called for a regime change in the Islamic country .
The US president wrote on his Truth Social page that satellite images he obtained showed the Iranian nuclear facilities were ‘obliterated,’ and noted that the most damage ‘took place far below ground level.’
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Iranian army’s commander-in-chief meets with generals and issues threat to US
The commander-in-chief of Iran’s conventional army, Amir Hatami, has attended a meeting with generals following the US strikes over the weekend.
He said in a new statement that every time the US had committed crimes against Iran, they were met with a decisive response and the same would be the case this time.
