Trump Promises Iran Will Pay ‘Many Times Over’ For Every American Soldier Killed

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President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to the government of Iran via Truth Social Monday.

“Every time Iran kills an American Soldier they will pay for that killing many times over!” the president wrote on his social media platform.

“This directive has been passed on to Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Daniel Caine, and every Leader in the Military,” he added before signing off, “President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

The president’s message was posted after the Pentagon released the names of two U.S. servicemembers who were killed in Jordan after Iran fired missiles at an American military base in the country.

First Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, was killed Saturday, and Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas, was killed Friday. Per The New York Times, Gonzales was assigned to the 10th Army Air Missile Defense Command in Ansbach, Germany, and Feehan to the 32nd Army Air Missile Defense Command in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

The identity of a third servicemember who was killed in northern Iraq Saturday has not been released. A fourth servicemember is still missing. The Times also reported that a U.S. official who spoke with the newspaper on the condition of anonymity “said that remains at scene were believed to be those of the missing soldier.”

Four other servicemembers who were wounded in the attacks were taken to hospitals in Jordan and have since been discharged.

The president also took to Truth Social to defend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday.

He wrote, “Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America. He is fighting against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which recently killed 52,000 innocent protestors, and has spent the last 47 years killing American Soldiers, and others. The only ones that should be arrested are the people that led Iran into this unprecedented SPIRAL OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION, something that should have been dealt with years ago, by previous Presidents!”

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