Monday, June 29, 2026 -President Donald Trump has threatened Iran’s existence as the renewed strikes between the Islamic regime and the U.S. threaten a shaky ceasefire.
“United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone
storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire
Agreement, AGAIN!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “It is very possible that they
will never learn! There may come a point when we are no longer able to be
reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very
successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no
longer exist!”
The threat against Iran’s existence echoes past warnings
Trump made earlier this year while attempting to get Iran to the negotiating
table. In April, the president issued the ominous threat that Iran’s “whole
civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
When asked about the threat days later, he said he was “fine
with it.” Democratic lawmakers fumed over the initial post, calling it “pure
evil” while others accused the president of threatening war crimes and
genocide, and demanded that he be removed from office.
The latest post was written before Iran carried out
retaliatory strikes on Kuwait and Bahrain on Sunday, accusing the U.S. of
violating the ceasefire. No injuries have been reported. Iran’s Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned that more attacks from the U.S. will
result in the “complete halt of all diplomatic processes.”
Iran struck a Singapore-flagged cargo ship near the coast of
Oman on Thursday. The vessel’s starboard side and bridge were damaged in the
attack, but no one aboard was injured, according to the United Kingdom Maritime
Trade Operations Center, which is affiliated with the British Royal Navy.
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said on Saturday that it
carried out more strikes on Iranian targets following an attack on a
Panama-flagged tanker near the Strait of Hormuz. A one-way drone struck the
tanker M/T Kiku as it was transiting near the strait with more than 2 million
barrels of crude oil on board at around 4:30 a.m., according to Centcom.
Iran reasserted its authority over the Strait of Hormuz,
warning on Friday that ships will safely pass through if they coordinate with
officials. The 14-point memorandum of understanding (MOU) guarantees that no
vessels will pay a toll to safely pass through the strait. Trump administration
officials have long maintained that Iran enforcing a toll through the strait
would violate international law.
The U.S. and Iran electronically signed the 14-point MOU to
extend the pause on all hostilities for 60 days in order to negotiate an end to
the conflict and determine the future of Iran’s nuclear program, as well as
restore unrestricted navigation through the strait.
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