The United States President Donald Trump holds a press conference on the war in Iran in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on April 6, 2026 in Washington DC.<\/span>Imago\/Zuma<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump threatened genocide<\/span> against the people of Iran Tuesday morning, saying that \u201ca whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.\u201d<\/p>\n The Truth Social post<\/a> in full: \u201cA whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don\u2019t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!\u201d<\/p>\n This warning comes as Trump\u2019s latest deadline for Iran\u2019s leadership to open the Strait of Hormuz expires on Tuesday night at 8pm Eastern Time and is a horrifying escalation of his threat over the weekend to commit war crimes<\/a> by bombing Iranian civilian infrastructure, including power plants and desalination plants.\u00a0<\/p>\n But the president clearly doesn\u2019t care. In a Monday afternoon press conference, he told reporters that he was \u201cnot at all\u201d concerned about his threats violating the Geneva convention\u2019s bans<\/a> on attacking resources essential for a population\u2019s survival. The prohibitions bind all United Nations member states.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not worried about it,\u201d Trump said in his dismissive Monday remarks. \u201cYou know the war crime? The war crime is allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n
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