President Donald Trump expressed frustration today with leaders in Iran after the breakdown of his administration’s memorandum of understanding with the country overnight, suggesting that Iran’s leadership “may be gone” following the resumption of hostilities, APA reports citing CNN.
“They were the bully of the Middle East, so they’re a much different country now,” Trump told reporters at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey on Wednesday. “Everything’s gone, their leaders are gone. They had leaders, they’re gone, and they had another set of leaders, they’re gone, now they have another set of leaders, they may be gone, who knows?”
Earlier Wednesday, Trump blasted leadership in Tehran as “cuckoo,” and suggested that he planned another round of “very hard” strikes again tonight.
Speaking during the press conference, Trump also suggested he himself was Iran’s “number one target.”
“I may be gone too, because I’m their number one target, it’s out all over the place,” he said. “I’m their number one, because they’re scum, that’s the way they act, and that’s the way they’ve done it for 47 years. But I’m doing what’s right for the country, I’m doing really what’s right for the world.”