{"id":43515,"date":"2026-01-21T08:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/trump-escalates-rhetoric-on-iran-in-response-to-tehrans-latest-warnings\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:11:23","slug":"trump-escalates-rhetoric-on-iran-in-response-to-tehrans-latest-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/trump-escalates-rhetoric-on-iran-in-response-to-tehrans-latest-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump escalates rhetoric on Iran in response to Tehran&apos;s latest warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has intensified his warnings to Iran, stating that in response to any actions, the US would &quot;destroy them from the face of the earth.&quot; He emphasized his readiness to deliver a powerful blow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2026%2F01%2F21%2F1768982441-2639-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Trump escalates rhetoric on Iran in response to Tehran&#039;s latest warnings\"\/><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has escalated his warnings to Iran in response to the country&#039;s leadership&#039;s heightened rhetoric following his calls for regime change, UNN reports, citing CNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>Asked in a NewsNation interview that aired on Tuesday about recent warnings from Iranian officials, Trump said, &quot;Well, they shouldn\u2019t be doing it, but I\u2019ve left notification that anything ever happens, we\u2019re going to blow them up. The whole country is going to get blown up.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Trump added, &quot;I would absolutely hit them so hard, but I have very firm instructions anything happens, they\u2019re going to wipe them off the face of this earth.&quot;<\/p>\n<h2>Addition<\/h2>\n<p>Iran reiterated its warning to the US that any military action against the country&#039;s leadership would provoke &quot;devastating retaliation,&quot; said the spokesman for the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, quoted by Iranian state Press TV.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Iran&#039;s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called the US president a &quot;criminal&quot; for his support of recent anti-government protests. Trump called Khamenei a &quot;sick man&quot; in an interview with Politico last weekend, saying it was &quot;time to look for a new leader in Iran,&quot; remarks that Tehran condemned.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian parliamentary commission on national security stated that an attack on Khamenei would be &quot;a declaration of war on the entire Islamic world&quot; and could lead to a call from religious leaders for &quot;jihad&quot; or holy war.<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices fall amid reduced risks from production halt in Kazakhstan21.01.26, 09:48 \u2022 540 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has intensified his warnings to Iran, stating that in response to any actions, the US would &quot;destroy them from the face of the earth.&quot; He emphasized his readiness to deliver a powerful blow. US President Donald Trump has escalated his warnings to Iran in response to the country&#039;s leadership&#039;s heightened rhetoric following his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}