Trump: Iran regime crushed, no one left to negotiate with

President Donald Trump delivered a sharp message to Tehran overnight Saturday in a speech at a campaign rally in Georgia, addressing at length the ongoing confrontation with the Iranian regime and the current state of the ayatollahs' government.

In his remarks, Trump defended his earlier decision to withdraw from the nuclear agreement signed in 2015 under the Obama administration, emphasizing that the move came "at exactly the right time." According to Trump, the original deal did not restrain Tehran's ambitions but instead "served as a direct pathway leading Iran to a nuclear weapon."

Trump went on to praise the results of the military campaign and pressure applied to Iran over the past year. "We destroyed their uranium enrichment capacity through Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Epic Fury," Trump declared. "We crushed them militarily, economically, and in every other arena. Now our focus is on one goal only: to ensure they never have a nuclear weapon—and we'll achieve that very easily."

Trump also mocked the state of the regime's infrastructure and chain of command, noting that the damage Tehran has sustained makes the possibility of dialogue especially complicated. "They have no planes, no ships, and no leaders. The first tier has been eliminated, and the second tier has been eliminated too," he claimed, adding with sarcasm: "I need to stop for a moment just to figure out who the hell we're supposed to negotiate with."

American forces facing Iran (Photo: US CENTCOM)

The remarks come against a backdrop of high tension between Washington and Tehran. Trump accused the Iranian regime of attempting to manipulate oil prices ahead of the US midterm elections, claiming that Iran is carrying out false attacks and laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz in order to drive up oil prices and influence the vote.

At the same time, American reports indicate that the United States has begun evacuating diplomats and their families from a series of missions across the Middle East, following serious intelligence warnings about Iranian plots to assassinate senior American officials. According to reports in Axios and the New York Times, Iran has significantly intensified its efforts to carry out assassinations of American diplomats and officials in the Middle East and beyond.