Trump claims US “decimated” Iran’s military, criticises NATO allies

US President Donald Trump claimed on Truth Social that the United States has inflicted massive damage on Iran’s military.

“Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military — Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again!” he wrote, Caliber.Az reports.

Trump also criticised NATO allies for declining to support US operations against Iran. 

“The United States has been informed by most of our NATO ‘Allies’ that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon,” he said.

Trump further emphasised that, due to the alleged military successes, the United States no longer requires assistance from NATO, Japan, Australia, or South Korea, asserting that the country, as “by far the most powerful anywhere in the world,” does not need help from any other nation.

Talking about the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, Trump noted that the United States does not need outside assistance.

“Well, we don’t need too much help, and we don’t need any help, actually,” he said at a White House briefing. 

Trump also commented on the reported killing of Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani. 

He confirmed the news, stating that “Their top person was actually killed yesterday. He was responsible for the killing of protesters.”

Additionally, he said that the US is capable of striking Iran’s energy infrastructure at a moment’s notice.

“We could take out their electric capacity in one hour. There’s nothing they can do right now because everything is knocked out. They have no radar, no anti-aircraft. They have nothing,” he said. “We can knock out their electricity in a matter of minutes if we wanted to. There’s nothing they can do about it.”

By Sabina Mammadli