Donald Trump has vowed to destroy Iran in an expletive-laden social media post, which he bizarrely ended with the phrase: ‘Praise be to Allah.’
He wrote in a Truth Social early on Easter Sunday morning: ‘Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.
‘There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F***in’ Strait, you crazy b*****ds, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.’
The president’s threat to turn the country into a living hell comes just days after US-Israeli air strikes destroyed Iran’s tallest bridge, killing eight people.
The B1 bridge, which links Iran’s capital with the western city of Karaj, was targeted in two waves of strikes on Thursday after Trump said he would bomb Tehran ‘back to the Stone Age’.
The second attack on the 136-metre structure took place while rescue forces were at the scene helping at least 95 injured people, Iranian state media claimed.
Now, Trump said Iran’s power plants will be bombed next if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened.
The narrow and vital waterway that is used as a high-volume shipping route has been closed since the war broke out on February 28 with Iran vowing to block ‘enemy’ ships from getting through ever since.
The latest comes after US special forces rescued two F15 airmen who got trapped behind enemy lines as the war rages on.
They had to destroy two of their own planes as they completed the daring rescue mission.
The airman, alongside a pilot, had been in an F-15 fighter jet, which was shot down over a remote area of Iran on Friday.
The pilot had safely ejected and was rescued by two military helicopters the same day, but the second crew member had remained missing.
The missing crew member, who President Trump said was a highly respected Colonel, evaded pursuing Iranians for almost two days while Reaper drones overhead protected him from danger.
Armed with only a handgun to protect him and injured from his ejection from the F-15, the Colonel hid from danger before making a daring dash to the rescue site.
The complex rescue mission involved hundreds of special forces personnel along with several dozen warplanes and helicopters.
A firefight broke out on the ground as Iranian forces closed in on the stricken colonel.
As they made the extraction, two of the five rescue planes became stuck in a remote airfield inside Iran and were blown up by special forces to avoid being captured by the enemy.
Trump touted the operation late Saturday night as ‘one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History’.
Meanwhile, the president has been holed up inside the White House, ‘working nonstop’ during the holiday weekend as tensions continue to escalate, White House communications director Steven Cheung said in a X post on Saturday.
His last public appearance was on Wednesday when he visited the Supreme Court as it heard a birthright citizenship case. Later that night, he delivered an address to the nation on the war with Iran.
During the US airmen rescue mission, Iranian forces had been deceived after the CIA spread the word that US forces had already found the colonel.
The colonel was forced to hide and evade capture for a nerve-racking 36 hours deep inside Iranian territory in harsh terrain.
According to Axios, the colonel had been injured during ejection from the F-15 jet but remained mobile as he hid in the mountains.
Iranians had been offered a $60,000 bounty for the pilot’s ‘head,’ as the regime urged locals near the crash site to seize the American.
Bombs and weapons were fired from US warplanes to keep Iranian troops away from the stranded colonel.
At one point, he reached elevations of around 7,000 feet as he sought to evade capture from Iranian forces.
As US forces closed in on the stranded officer, a firefight broke out with Iranian troops.





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