posted on social media<\/a> that Trump had told reporters he intended to commit \u201cmass war crimes\u201d. Iran\u2019s mission to the United Nations said the threats constituted \u201cclear evidence of intent to commit war crime\u201d.<\/p>\nTrump invoked the 2022 \u201cWoman, Life, Freedom\u201d Iranian protest movement, describing snipers shooting female protesters \u201cright between the eyes\u201d and argued that Iranians had lived under such severe repression that they would welcome almost any price for regime change. He characterized that crackdown as a small number of expert marksmen ending a march of 400,000 to 500,000 women with five or six targeted killings.<\/p>\n
At the start of the press conference, Trump said that Iran \u201ccan be taken out in one night, and that might be tomorrow night\u201d. He also reiterated a deadline of 8pm ET on Tuesday for the regime to reopen the strait of Hormuz or face a barrage of strikes on energy facilities and bridges.<\/p>\n
Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon secretary who flanked Trump at the press conference alongside Gen Daniel Caine, the joints chiefs of staff chair, said that under the president\u2019s direction \u201ctoday will be the largest volume of strikes since day one of this operation\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cTomorrow, even more than today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
In a question to the president, a reporter noted that deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure violate the Geneva conventions, to which Trump replied: \u201cI hope I don\u2019t have to do it, but again \u2026 47 years they\u2019ve been negotiating with these people. They\u2019re great negotiators, and because they\u2019re not going to have a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump said he \u201ccan\u2019t talk about the ceasefire\u201d, and when asked whether the war is winding down or ramping up, he said: \u201cI can\u2019t tell you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump on Monday claimed that Iranian civilians were actively welcoming US strikes on their country\u2019s infrastructure, saying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-378435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}