White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has defended United States President Donald Trump’s “very serious” threat to Iran, in which he said a “whole civilisation will die, never to be brought back again”.
“I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday.
Leavitt told reporters it was a “very, very strong threat … that led the Iranian regime to cave to their knees and ask for a ceasefire and agree to reopening the Strait of Hormuz”.
After a day on the brink, Trump abruptly reversed his threats — which experts say could have amounted to war crimes — and announced a Pakistani-mediated truce agreement just two hours before a deadline he had set for Iran to open the blockaded Strait of Hormuz.
Read the latest on the Strait of Hormuz here: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/wong-dodges-questions-on-strait-of-hormuz-as-israel-strikes-lebanon-threatening-ceasefire/cxjmxr4ad
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