President Donald Trump issued a forceful warning to Iran while fighting spread across multiple countries, with drone attacks, missile interceptions, and new military strikes reported across the Gulf and beyond.
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President Donald Trump issued a sharp warning to Iran on Friday as hostilities across the Middle East intensified, declaring that U.S. forces were inflicting major damage on Tehran’s military capabilities and cautioning that further consequences could follow.
In an early morning message published on Truth Social, Trump wrote that Iranian forces were suffering heavy losses during the widening conflict.
“We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise,” Trump wrote in the post.
“Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth.”
Trump also warned that additional developments were imminent, writing, “Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today.”
In the same message, Trump referenced the length of Iran’s conflict with Western governments.
“They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them,” he wrote. “What a great honor it is to do so!”
Iranian officials rejected the comments. Ali Larijani, a senior Iranian security figure, dismissed the remarks during Quds Day demonstrations in Tehran.
Larijani told Iranian media that a suspected Israeli strike inside the Iranian capital reflected what he described as Israeli desperation.
He also said the U.S. president misunderstood the effect of pressure on Iran.
“The more pressure he puts on the people, the greater their willpower will be,” Larijani said.
The statements came as Iran launched a new wave of attacks early Friday across the Gulf region. Saudi Arabia reported that its air defenses intercepted nearly 50 Iranian drones launched in multiple waves toward the kingdom.
Warning sirens also sounded in Bahrain as authorities alerted residents to incoming aerial threats.
In the United Arab Emirates, authorities said debris from a missile interception ignited a fire in an industrial zone in Dubai. Officials also reported damage to a building in the Dubai International Financial Center caused by falling debris following another interception.
Elsewhere in the region, two people were killed in Oman when drones crashed in an industrial district in the Sohar area, according to the Oman News Agency.
Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, issued warnings during the same period, calling on Gulf Arab governments to close American military bases and pledging retaliation for Iranians killed in the conflict.
Khamenei said claims that the United States could protect governments in the region were “nothing more than a lie” and vowed that Iran would “not refrain from avenging the blood” of those killed.
The conflict also reached Turkey, where NATO defenses intercepted a ballistic missile fired from Iran early Friday. Residents of the southern city of Adana reported hearing explosions and air raid sirens near Incirlik Air Base, which hosts U.S. military forces.
Turkey’s Defense Ministry later said NATO air defense systems destroyed the missile over the eastern Mediterranean.
Inside Iran, an explosion struck Tehran’s Ferdowsi Square during large Quds Day demonstrations supporting Palestinians.
Iranian state television confirmed the blast but said the cause had not been immediately determined. Israeli authorities had previously warned civilians to evacuate the area, saying a strike was planned there.
Despite the warning, large crowds gathered for the demonstrations, where participants chanted “death to Israel” and “death to America” as smoke rose over the square.
Iranian authorities report that more than 1,300 people have been killed inside the country since the conflict began. Israel has reported 12 fatalities, while the United States has confirmed at least 11 soldiers killed and eight others seriously wounded.
The Israeli military said it conducted a new series of airstrikes across Iran over the past 24 hours, targeting more than 200 sites including missile launchers, air-defense installations and weapons manufacturing facilities.
Hostilities also escalated along Israel’s northern border. Israeli authorities said nearly 60 people were wounded after Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon launched several rocket barrages toward northern Israel and at Israeli forces operating in southern Lebanon. Most of the injuries were described as minor.
Israeli strikes inside Lebanon also caused casualties. Lebanese state media reported that one person was killed in southwestern Beirut, while another attack in eastern Lebanon wounded a local official associated with the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and killed his two sons.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says more than 600 people have been killed in the country since the fighting began, while the United Nations refugee agency estimates that nearly 800,000 people have been displaced by the conflict.
Global energy markets reacted to the expanding war. Brent crude oil prices remained above $100 per barrel after earlier surging to roughly $120. Oil prices are now about 40 percent higher than they were before Israeli and U.S. strikes against Iran on Feb. 28 that triggered the current war.
Iran has also continued to threaten international shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic passage through which approximately one-fifth of the world’s oil supply travels.
Meanwhile, U.S. Central Command confirmed that four of the six crew members aboard an American KC-135 aerial refueling tanker that crashed in Iraq have been found dead. Search and recovery efforts continue for the two remaining personnel. Military officials said the crash was not caused by hostile or friendly fire.
The tanker was the fourth publicly acknowledged U.S. aircraft lost during operations connected to the conflict. Last week, three American fighter jets were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti forces in a friendly-fire incident.
In Iraq’s northern Kurdish region, French President Emmanuel Macron said a French soldier was killed during an attack targeting the city of Erbil. France previously reported that six of its troops were wounded during a drone strike in the area.
British officials said several U.S. service members also suffered minor injuries earlier in the week when drones struck a base in Erbil housing both British and American personnel.
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