Several weeks ago, President Donald Trump promised the Iranian people that “help is on its way.” Over the weekend, that help arrived in droves as part of Operation Epic Fury, a joint U.S.-Israel operation that killed Iran’s ayatollah and dozens of his possible successors.
Following the attack, Trump warned Iran’s remaining leadership to ease cessations, or they will be hit harder than they have been hit before, but the leaders refused — and Trump told the Washington Reporter in his latest interview that “we’re hitting them really hard.”
But, the president has noted that “the big one” is yet to come in terms of defending the Iranian people from their brutal government. Consequently, he told the Reporter that the Iranian people “should wait until the herd thins out a little bit…they should wait a little bit longer.”
For Trump, Iran has been a priority for years, and his maximum security campaign has been one of his fullest rejections of the policies of former President Barack Obama. That is something that he noted to the Reporter in his interview as well.
“If I didn’t terminate what I call the Obama nuclear deal, the Iran nuclear deal, Iran would have had a nuclear weapon, full-sized, three years ago,” Trump said. The consequences, he noted, would have been dire: “Israel would have been obliterated, and so would many of the countries in the Middle East.”
