The President’s Ultimatum to Iran
- The American president gave Iran “48 hours” on Saturday to “conclude an agreement or reopen the Strait of Hormuz.”
- Failing which, the United States would “unleash hell” on the Islamic Republic.
- Tehran’s response came in the evening, with Iranian armed forces calling Donald Trump’s threats “stupid.”
The response was swift. The American president, in a message posted on his Truth Social network, threatened on Saturday, April 4, to “unleash hell” on Iran if the Islamic Republic did not reach an agreement or reopen the Strait of Hormuz within “48 hours.” “Time is running out,” reminded Donald Trump, who had given the mullah regime 10 days on March 26 to reach an agreement to end the war.
The response to these threats came a few hours later: “The aggressive and belligerent American president, after suffering successive defeats, has embarked, in a helpless, unstable, nervous, and stupid manner, on threatening Iran’s infrastructure and assets,” said General Ali Abdollahi, commander of the Iranian armed forces.
“With our armed forces, we will not hesitate for a moment to defend our country’s rights, protect our assets, and put any aggressor in their place,” he added, as reported by state television on Telegram.
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Donald Trump’s ultimatum is set to expire on Monday, April 6, at 8:00 PM Washington time. In the absence of a reopening of the strait, the American president had threatened to destroy power plants in Iran. On Saturday night, the Iranian military warned that, “in the event of an attack by the American-Zionist enemy, we will target all the infrastructure used by the American terrorist army, as well as the infrastructure of the Zionist regime, without exception, during destructive and uninterrupted attacks.”
“Since the beginning of this war imposed on us, we have kept our promises; this message simply means that you will open the gates of hell,” concluded General Abdollahi.
