Aljazeera  April 7,2026

By Ali Harb

Increasingly angry US president escalates threats against Iran as his Democratic rivals rebuke him as ‘sick’ and ‘genocidal’.

President Donald Trump has suggested the United States will destroy Iranian “civilisation” if Tehran does not open the Strait of Hormuz and submit to his terms.

About 12 hours before the Tuesday night deadline he set for Iranian authorities, Trump shared a social media post threatening to irreversibly obliterate Iran.

“A whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Iran is the heir to the millennia-old Persian civilisation, one of the most influential in human history.

For more than two weeks, the US president has been warning that he would order the destruction of Iran’s civilian infrastructure, including bridges and power stations, if his demands are not met.

His latest post on Tuesday reflected the escalating and angry rhetoric he has deployed since the US and Israel launched the war on Iran on February 28.

“It’s horrific. It’s pure evil. It’s disqualifying,” Yasmine Taeb, legislative and political director for the advocacy group MPower Change Action Fund, said of Trump’s threats.

“It’s the words of a deranged, unstable madman.”

Read more at link below:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/7/trump-on-iran-a-whole-civilisation-will-die-tonight

Note from S. Byron Gassaway (webmaster, blogster) For further elucidation, I suggest reading this:

On The Eve Of Destruction? Clock Ticks Down On Trump’s Iran Deadline

https://www.twz.com/news-features/on-the-eve-of-destruction-clock-ticks-down-on-trumps-iran-deadline