The President of the United States is a monster.

At shortly after 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, Donald Trump threatened to annihilate a nation of over 90 million people, and a society whose roots date back over 7,000 years.

In a Truth Social post he wrote, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”

Apparently, Trump thought that by underscoring to the world that he is a madman, he might intimidate the Iranian regime to agree to the complete capitulation that Trump is demanding as a precondition to ending his illegal war against their country.

It did not work. The Iranian government immediately announced that because of Trump’s threat, they were breaking off talks with the United States designed to bring about a ceasefire.

Iran’s Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref offered a defiant response saying, “Iran is not a mere ‘incident’ in history, but history itself. A civilization that has weathered the storms and delusions of ill-wishers for thousands of years does not tremble at the Stone Age rhetoric of Trump. Our response to the enemy’s savagery is to stand firm on national interests and rely on the inner strength of the great Iranian nation.”

Trump’s often repeated deadline for Iran to agree to his terms is 8 p.m. Whether or not an agreement is reached by then and regardless of the nature of the attack that may be launched at that time, by threatening genocide, Trump has transformed the nature of the current conflict and sent the world an unambiguous message about the depths........

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