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Iran Calls Trump ‘Mentally Retarded.’ Trump Gives Them A Friendly Reminder.

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WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 20: President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Oval Office of the White House on June 20, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

On Tuesday, after Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani attacked President Trump, saying the White House’s actions show that Trump is “mentally retarded,” Trump fired back with a series of tweets warning Iran that if they attack anything American, that action would be met with “great and overwhelming force. In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration. No more John Kerry & Obama!”

Trump’s series of tweets slammed the Iranian regime, warning it not to mess with American power, as he wrote, “Iran leadership doesn’t understand the words “nice” or “compassion,” they never have. Sadly, the thing they do understand is Strength and Power, and the USA is by far the most powerful Military Force in the world, with 1.5 Trillion Dollars invested over the last two years alone.”

Trump segued to a condemnation of the regime for bombs that have murdered thousands of Americans, writing, “The wonderful Iranian people are suffering, and for no reason at all. Their leadership spends all of its money on Terror, and little on anything else. The U.S. has not forgotten Iran’s use of IED’s & EFP’s (bombs), which killed 2000 Americans, and wounded many more…”

He concluded with a dire warning to Iran not to attack America or Americans, asserting, “Iran’s very ignorant and insulting statement, put out today, only shows that they do not understand reality. Any attack by Iran on anything American will be met with great and overwhelming force. In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration. No more John Kerry & Obama!”

As Secretary of State in 2016, John Kerry praised Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who may become one of the targets of the sanctions imposed on Iran, saying, “I want to make it clear that Javad is a very tough, very capable negotiator, a patriot all the time, who fought hard for his nation’s interests, while always trying to find a constructive way to solve the problems that we both understood were gigantic hurdles for both of our countries, for both of our people, for our politics, and the divisions that exist at home for each of us.”

Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies noted:

Rouhani stated on TV that the new sanctions Trump imposed on Iran on Monday (including targeting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini) in response to Iran shooting down an American drone were “outrageous and idiotic.” He was echoed by Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, who blustered that the “fruitless sanction on Iran’s leadership and the chief of Iranian diplomacy mean the permanent closure of the road of diplomacy with the frustrated U.S. administration,” as The Daily Mail reported.

Trump said on Monday, “I’ll be signing an executive order imposing hard-hitting sanctions on the supreme leader of Iran on the office of the supreme leader of Iran and many others. Today’s action follows a series of aggressive behaviors by the Iranian regime in recent weeks, including shooting down of U.S. drones.”

After the American drone was shot down, the Trump administration responded by targeting a cyberattack against Iran. Fox News reported, “Fox News has confirmed that the U.S. military also carried out a cyberattack against Iran last Thursday even as the president nixed plans for airstrikes in response to the downing of an American drone. Sources said U.S. Cyber Command launched the cyberattack targeting the Iranian intelligence and radar installations used to down the U.S. Navy drone last week.”

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