Trump says US military will carry out more ‘hard’ attacks against Iran

President Donald Trump threatened further military action against Iran on Wednesday, hours after the US military carried out multiple waves of strikes on Iranian military targets in response to the downing of an Apache helicopter.

“We are going to be attacking them very hard,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “We hit them hard yesterday, and we’re going to hit them hard again today.”

Trump said Washington remains open to reaching an agreement with Tehran but insisted any deal must be substantive and enforceable.

“We want a deal that is meaningful. We want a deal that works,” he said. “But they keep tapping us along, they keep playing us for suckers.”

Trump also revealed that the US has been secretly taking out “millions of barrels of oils” from Iran.

“Now that they figured it out, I can tell you… I wanted to say it so badly, I didn’t want to ruin it, but it was very hard,” Trump said. “And that’s why it’s at $85-90 a barrel, instead of $250,” he added.