'Will Hit Them Very Hard Over The Next Week': Trump's New Warning After 'Scumbags' Post

Washington: As the war in the Middle East is heading onto its third week, US President Donald Trump said that US forces would be carrying out intense strikes against Iranian targets in the next few days.

“We’re going to be hitting them very hard over the next week,” Trump told Fox News Radio in an interview aired on Friday.

‘In My Bones’

In his interview with Fox News, Trump allayed fears over the ongoing energy crisis saying that the economy and American life will soon return to what it was before he launched his strikes on Iran.

“This will bounce right back when it’s over, and I don’t think it’s going to be long,” Trump said in his interview.

On being asked when the war will be over, Trump said, “When I feel it, when I feel it in my bones.”

‘Deranged Scumbags’

Earlier in the day, Trump said that the US is going all out in its campaign against Iran's Islamic regime. He warned that Iran should watch out for what would happen and assured that the US was on its way to win the war.

"We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise, yet, if you read the Failing New York Times, you would incorrectly think that we are not winning. Iran's Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth. We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time - Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today. They've been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honour it is to do so," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

Hegseth Says Mojtaba Khamenei ‘Wounded’

Earlier on Friday, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that Iran's new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, is "wounded and likely disfigured" in strikes by the US on the country.

Hegseth said that the new leadership in Iran was in "no better shape" and questioned the recent statement by the Supreme Leader for its legitimacy, calling it “weak.”

"Iran's leadership is in no better shape -- desperate and hiding, they've gone underground, cowering. That's what rats do. We know the new so-called not-so-supreme leader is wounded and likely disfigured," Hegseth said.

"He put out a statement yesterday, a weak one actually, but there was no voice and there was no video... Iran has plenty of cameras and plenty of voice recorders; why a written statement? I think you know why. His father is dead. He's scared, he's injured, he's on the run and he lacks legitimacy. It's a mess for them," he added.

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