“I urge the Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian military police, to lay down their arms and receive total immunity or face certain death. It will be certain. Death will not be pleasant,” Trump declared in a statement published in a video on his social network, Truth Social.
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According to what he said, “all” of Iran’s military command “has disappeared” and many of them “want to surrender to protect their lives”: “They want immunity.” Even so, Trump said that operations continue “with full force” and will do so “until all objectives are achieved.” The president defended these actions as “necessary” to guarantee the safety of Americans. “For nearly 50 years, these evil extremists have been attacking the U.S. while chanting the slogan ‘Death to America’ or ‘Death to Israel,’ or both,” he noted. The U.S. president called on “all Iranian patriots who yearn for freedom” to seize the moment, be “brave, bold and heroic and reclaim their country.” “The United States is with you. I made you a promise and I kept it. The rest is up to you. We will be there to help you,” he asserted. This is Trump’s first institutional statement since he announced the joint operation with Israel in the early hours of Saturday. Until now, he had only held brief telephone interviews with some media outlets. The president spent the weekend at his private residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, monitoring the operation, and is scheduled to return to the White House this afternoon.
