US President Donald Trump has issued his first response after Israel and the United States conducted joint airstrikes in Iran, saying that “major combat
operations” had been launched against the "wicked" dictatorship of Tehran. In a video message posted on social media platform X on Saturday, Trump alleged that Tehran was attempting to rebuild its nuclear programme, and asserted that America will ensure that it does not obtain a nuclear weapon. The Republican president has told the Islamic Revolutionary Guard to lay down their arms, saying, “You will be treated fairly with total immunity or you will face certain death.” "The United States military has undertaken a massive and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests. We are going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally, again, obliterated. We are going to annihilate their navy. We are going to ensure that the region’s terrorist proxies can no longer destabilise the region or the world, and attack our forces, and no longer use their IEDs - or roadside bombs, as they are sometimes called - to so gravely wound and kill thousands and thousands of people including many Americans. And we will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon," Trump said.
Israel launches missile attack against Iran
Israel has launched a preventive missile attack against Iran on Saturday, as reported by TPS. Citizens have been advised to seek shelter as the IDF said that sirens were sounded across the nation as a proactive alert for the possibility of missiles being launched towards the country.
TPS further noted that Defence Minsiter Israel Katz announced that the preemptive strikes against Iran came to remove threats to the country.
The Israeli Defence Force called on the public to stay in proximity to protected spaces.
(This is a developing story)
