By Desire Emmanuel with Agency Reports
US President, Donald Trump, boasted on Sunday, March 1, that 48 Iranian leaders were wiped out ‘in one shot’ after confirming to the world that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was dead, Daily Mail of UK reported.
He also said in a Truth Social post that US forces ‘destroyed and sunk’ nine Iranian Navy ships.
“We are going after the rest – They will soon be floating at the bottom of the sea, also! In a different attack, we largely destroyed their Naval Headquarters. Other than that, their Navy is doing very well!” Trump wrote.
At the same time, Trump said he’s ‘agreed’ to talk to the country’s potential new leadership.
Iranian officials created a transitional counsel in the wake of Khamenei’s death
Trump made the boast about the US killing dozens of top Iranian leaders on a phone call with Fox News Channel’s Jacqui Heinrich, also telling the reporter that he knows how many targets are left to hit.
The president additionally said that Operation Epic Fury is moving along ‘rapidly.’
Trump also told the Atlantic Sunday morning that new talks could be coming soon.
“They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them,” the President said. “They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long.”
Early on Saturday morning, US and Israeli forces unleashed a torrid of attacks on Iran, with the Islamic regime retaliating by sending missiles and drones towards Israel and at a number of Arab partners of the US – including Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain.
Trump ordered the strikes from Mar-a-Lago after nuclear negotiations led by envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner had broken down.
The Iranians also targeted Saudi Arabia, which doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Israel, but whose leadership is close to Trump and Kushner.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Sunday that the USS Abraham Lincoln had been struck, with the claims going out on Iranian state media.
The US military refuted those claims, saying the Iranian missiles ‘didn’t even come close.’
