Trump: U.S. will return Iran ‘back to the stone ages’ if there’s no deal in coming weeks

President Trump threatened to annihilate Iran’s energy infrastructure if its leaders refuse to agree to a peace deal in the coming weeks, reiterating a threat that many legal experts say would violate international laws of war.

“I can say tonight we are on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly,” Trump said in a primetime address on Wednesday. “We’re going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks; we’re going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong. In the meantime, discussions are ongoing.”

The president claimed that regime change was never the goal of the war, despite calling for a popular uprising on the day the U.S. launched its bombing campaign. He also reiterated his claim that regime change has effectively taken place due to the killing of several senior government figures, adding, “the new group is less radical and much more reasonable.”

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