The US President further claimed that the US could destroy Iran’s electricity and power generation facilities within hours.
“But we can knock out their electricity and power-generating plants in, I would say, a small part of an afternoon. Every plant will be gone. And they know that,” he said.
Trump’s latest remarks come days after he claimed that Washington had the capability to eliminate Iran’s surviving leadership in “one shot” if it wanted to, referring to senior Iranian officials who gathered during the week-long state funeral of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in joint US-Israeli air strikes on February 28.
In an interview with Axios, Trump had said, “They are all there. One shot [and we can take them all out], but we are not going to do that because then we would have nobody to negotiate with,” indicating that the US intended to keep diplomatic channels with Tehran open despite its military capabilities.