US denies nuclear plan as deadline on threat to Iran ‘civilisation’ looms

The White House has denied that it has any plans to use nuclear weapons against Iran as a deadline imposed by President Donald Trump for Tehran to make a deal or face a massive onslaught looms.

The denial from Washington came on Tuesday, as the president employed apocalyptic language. Insisting that Iran capitulate to his demands, Trump warned that a “whole civilisation will die tonight”.
‘Beyond the region’
“A whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” said Trump on his TruthSocial on Tuesday. However, he said, “something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight.”
‘Beyond the region’
“A whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” said Trump on his TruthSocial on Tuesday. However, he said, “something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight.”
However, the Iranian response has been defiant. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said it will not hesitate to respond in kind if the US attacks civilian facilities.

“We will do to the infrastructure of America and its partners what will deprive them and their allies of the region’s oil and gas for many years,” the IRGC said in a statement.

Washington fails to calculate the critical assets that would be within Iranian fire range, it said. “Our response will extend beyond the region if the US military crosses our red lines.”

President Masoud Pezeskhian said that more than 14 million Iranians, including himself, have volunteered to fight to defend Iran.