PALM BEACH, US: US President Donald Trump on Sunday warned Iran’s security forces to surrender or be killed, after the US military said it destroyed the headquarters of the elite Revolutionary Guards.
“I once again urge the Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian military and police to lay down your arms and receive full immunity or face certain death. It will be certain death. It won’t be pretty,” Trump said in a video address.
A day after the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei pitched the Middle East and the global economy into deepening uncertainty, the US and Israel pressed ahead with a military campaign that has sent shockwaves through sectors from shipping to air travel to oil.
Trump said he expects the campaign against Iran to last for a month. “It’s always been a four-week process. We figured it will be four weeks or so. It’s always been about a four-week process so — as strong as it is, it’s a big country, it’ll take four weeks — or less,” he was quoted as saying in an interview with the Daily Mail.
As the conflict entered its second day, Trump said 48 Iranian leaders had been killed and that the US military had started sinking Iran’s Navy, destroying nine Iranian warships so far and “going after the rest.”
