00:00What if a U.S. president was targeted for assassination and his response was a threat to erase an entire country?
00:24That's exactly the explosive warning Donald Trump just delivered, and it's sending shockwaves through Washington and Tehran.
00:32In a new interview aired Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued one of his most extreme warnings yet toward Iran.
00:40Trump said if Iran ever tried to assassinate him, the United States would respond with overwhelming force, saying Iran would be wiped off the face of the earth.
00:51And it wasn't just about him. Trump said the same response would apply if Iran violently crushed protesters inside the country.
01:00Anything ever happens, Trump said, the whole country is going to get blown up.
01:05He added that he has already given what he called very firm instructions.
01:09Trump also attacked former President Joe Biden, accusing him of failing to protect a sitting or former U.S. president from foreign threats.
01:19A president has to protect a president, Trump said, suggesting Biden was weak in dealing with Iran.
01:26Earlier, Iranian President Masoud Pazeshkian had warned that any attack on Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would mean total war.
01:36He said Iran's response would be severe, unforgettable, and regrettable.
01:42Pazeshkian also blamed Iran's economic suffering on decades of U.S. sanctions, calling them inhuane.
01:49In a post on X, he warned,
01:51Any harm to our supreme leadership is a declaration of total war against the Iranian nation.
01:58Despite recently pausing plans for a direct military strike, Trump hasn't backed down.
02:04The U.S. has moved an aircraft carrier and additional military assets toward the Middle East, moves typically seen before major operations.
02:13Many analysts now say the risk of a U.S. strike on Iran remains high.
02:18Military options still on the table, and can you assure us that the killing in Iran has stopped?
02:23And when we got to your peace council, which members have to pay $1 billion?
02:27So with Iran, are you from Iran?
02:29No, I cover the White House.
02:31Where are you from?
02:31I'm Palestinian-American.
02:33So with Iran, they were going to hang 837 people.
02:38And I let them be known that, and we let them know that if that happens, that will be a very bad day for them.
02:45And they decided not to do it.
02:47They didn't hang the people.
02:48I can't tell you what's going to happen in the future, but supposedly they've taken that off the table.
02:52But they were going to, last week, they were going to hang on Thursday or Wednesday.
02:56One, they were going to hang, I think, 837 people.
03:00And they didn't hang anybody.
03:03So we're just going to have to see what happens with Iran.
03:07There's a military option of the day.
03:09We've heard a long list of accomplishments from the last year.
03:12Could you cherry pick the top three?
03:13And then looking forward, what are your three most important priorities of 2026?
03:17So I think the building of a really powerful military has been a great achievement.
03:21And that would include the Venezuela thing.
03:23That would include the attack on Iran and the wiping out of the nuclear threat.
03:30Iran's nuclear enrichment capability and Operation Midnight Hammer was one of the most successful anyone's ever seen.
03:37CNN Fake News.
03:38I don't know where they are.
03:39CNN.
03:39Anybody from CNN here?
03:41Fake News.
03:42Nobody wants to raise their hand anymore.
03:43They used to argue.
03:45Now, if you're with CNN, you don't raise your hand.
03:47They said, well, maybe it wasn't that successful.
03:50Which I really went, I was angry because these pilots took their life in their hands.
03:55Two o'clock in the morning with no moon, dead dark, gun shooting at them.
04:01They went in with those beautiful B-2s and every single bomb went down an air shaft and obliterated it.
04:09And CNN came out and said, well, maybe it wasn't by a scam writer, a scam writer who wrote, you know, fake stories, a lot of fake stories on other topics.
04:18Right?
04:19Because when we did it, we said, that's a terrible thing.
04:22You know, the pilots came back and they said, we hit everything.
04:27They did a great job.
04:28Then on top of that, we launched from a submarine about 30 tomahawks on top of everything else.
04:35The place was obliterated.
04:36CNN said, well, maybe it wasn't that bad.
04:39It was turned out it was worse than it was.
04:42You know who could tell you that?
04:44The Iranians would tell you that, because if they do anything, they're going to have to start a brand new place.
04:51Over the weekend, Ayatollah Kameny accused the United States of fueling Iran's mass protests and economic chaos.
04:59Worth mentioning.
04:59In the past, whenever we encountered a sedition of this nature, we had, in fact, faced many such instances of turmoil.
05:08It was happening in the country very often.
05:14American media outlets, second-tier politicians from the United States, or even European nation, would typically get involved.
05:23But the unique aspect of this particular victory was that the President of the United States himself, personally, he himself,
05:34he got involved in this conquest, spoke his mind, expressed his views, and even made threats.
05:39He encouraged the instigators of unrest and sent a message from America to these individuals whose identities I will reveal to you later.
05:55You need to go forward.
05:56Go forward.
05:57Don't be afraid.
06:00We are supporting you.
06:02We are providing military support.
06:04What this means is that the American President himself got involved in this sedition.
06:10He is part of the plot.
06:17A number of individuals, a group of people who completely destroyed this complex, and
06:24they set things on fire, then they left, causing much disorder and killing many people.
06:30The Iranian nation was presented as responsible for these.
06:34This means a grave accusation was leveled against the Iranian people.
06:39He said,
06:40These are the people of Iran.
06:42I want to defend the Iranian nation.
06:43Let me be clear.
06:44What is happening here?
06:45These are crimes.
06:46These are serious criminal offenses.
06:51The reasons I presented are well-documented and verifiable.
06:55This means there's absolutely nothing hidden or concealed.
06:58He stated it quite openly.
06:59He spoke out very clearly and openly showed encouragement.
07:06We have a continuous stream of documents that provided assistance.
07:11Both they and the Zionist regime were involved in providing help.
07:15Now, I will briefly elaborate on that as well.
07:18We consider the president of America a criminal.
07:25Also, because of the casualties and because of the damages and because of the accusation he made against the Iranian nation.
07:31Trump fired back, calling Khamenei a sick person and saying it's time for new leadership in Iran.
07:42Meanwhile, Iran has been rocked by massive protests that began in late December over inflation and economic collapse.
07:49What started as merchant demonstrations quickly turned into nationwide anti-regime rallies.
07:55Protesters chanted death to the dictator and even called for the return of Iran's exiled royal family.
08:02At their peak, hundreds of thousands flooded the streets.
08:06The government responded by shutting down the Internet and launching a brutal crackdown, reportedly involving foreign militias.
08:14The protests have now quieted, but at a terrible cost.
08:17More protesters were killed than in any unrest in decades, drawing comparisons to the violent aftermath of Iran's 1979 revolution.
08:27So here's the question.
08:29Is this just tough talk or are the U.S. and Iran inching closer to a direct confrontation?
08:35With assassination warnings, military movements and mass unrest inside Iran, one thing is clear.
08:42This standoff is far from over.
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