Iranian official says President Trump understands language of violence better
JAKARTA - Deputy Foreign Minister of Iran, Kazem Gharibabadi said on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump "seems to understand the language of violence" after he threatened to carry out further attacks against Tehran.
Trump's statement, "from insulting the Iranian nation to threatening further attacks," is not "a sign of strength, but an acknowledgment of the failure of policies that have been built over the years on violence, sanctions, and threats," Gharibabadi said on the US social media company X, Anadolu reported (9/7).
He said the policy "failed to make the Iranian nation bow down."
"With Trump being criminal and cruel, we have to speak in his own language," Gharibabadi said. "It seems he understands the language of violence better," he said.
President Trump earlier said the US "may" attack Iran again on Wednesday night, following last night's US attack in response to Iran's attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
"We have hit them very hard last night, very, very hard. We will probably hit them very hard again tonight. I will give them a little warning. We will hit them very hard tonight," said President Trump on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, the capital of Turkey.
"I don't want to deal with them anymore. They are garbage," he added.
President Trump also said the memorandum of understanding signed last month with Iran to end the conflict has "ended."
As previously reported, Iran is reported to have attacked several merchant ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz in recent days.
US CENTCOM later announced it had carried out an attack on Iran that hit more than 80 targets, in response to Iran's move.
Afterwards, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had launched missiles and drones targeting 85 US military sites, including the Salman Port, the headquarters of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, and the Ali Al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait.
It is known that the US-Israel attacked Tehran and a number of other cities in Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a number of other officials, in addition to civilian casualties and injuries on February 28.
Iran responded by launching attacks on Israeli territory and US-related facilities in countries in the region.
The US-Iran then agreed to a two-week ceasefire on April 8 which was later extended with Pakistani mediation.
On June 18, Iran and the US agreed on a 14-point Memorandum of Understanding signed online by President Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, which aimed to end the military conflict, followed by the Lake Lucerne Summit on June 21.