‘There Won’t Be Anything Left’: Trump Promises ‘Total Obliteration’ if Iran Tries to Assassinate Him Again

President Donald Trump promised that Iran would face “total obliteration” if Iran tried to assassinate him on Tuesday — even if it succeeded.

Trump welcomed reporters into the Oval Office while signing documents imposing sanctions on the rogue Middle Eastern nation on Tuesday afternoon, where he fielded questions about the reinstatement of his “maximum pressure” policy.

“How close do you think Iran is to developing nuclear weapons?” asked Fox News’ Peter Doocy.

“I think they’re close, I think they’re close. They’re too close. But again, you can go back four years, I would have said they would have had it during this intervening period. But they’re pretty close, Peter,” answered Trump.

Doocy then followed up by noting that Iran and its proxies have threatened to “retaliate against you and your team by killing you guys for taking out [Qasem] Soleimani.”

“Well, they haven’t done that, and that would be a terrible thing for them to do. Not because of me, if they did that, they would be obliterated,” mused Trump. “That would be the end of-, I’ve left instructions: If they do it, they get obliterated. There won’t be anything left. And they shouldn’t be able to do it.”

“And [former President Joe] Biden should have said that, but he never did. I don’t know why– lack of intelligence, perhaps, but he never said it,” continued the president. “If that happens to a leader or close to a leader, frankly, if you had other people involved also, you would call for total obliteration of a state that did it — that would include Iran. So I’m saying this and it’s a very powerful document, but hopefully we’re not going to have to use it.”

The aim of Trump’s maximum pressure policy is to destroy Iran’s oil exportation industry and convince the authoritarian Iranian regime to either come to the negotiating table or cause the Iranian people to rise up and depose it.

The Department of Justice charged an Afghan national over his involvement in an Iranian plot to assassinate Trump last November.

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