Every expletive-laced, hyperbolic social media post President Donald Trump has shared about Iran is staggering to read, especially ones where he’s threatening to wipe out the country’s whole civilization.
But for Iranian Americans closely monitoring a war that has already killed more than 2,000 Iranians, reading his Truth Social posts makes it hard to get through the day.
“Every tweet from Trump has felt like a new kind of fresh hell,” said Tara Grammy, an Iranian American that lives in Los Angeles.
When Trump threatened to take out Iran “in one night” if the country didn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global supply route, Grammy was petrified. (Such attacks would have amounted to war crimes under international law.)
“My close family are all there except my mom so all I can think about is the worst case scenario,” said Grammy, who left Iran at age 6. “Reading the news and his tweets makes my whole world slow down. This is honestly the most challenging time of my life.”
