President Donald Trump Boasts He Killed Iran Leaders

President Donald Trump has publicly boasted of delivering catastrophic damage to Iran, posting that "Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth," and claiming "We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise."

“President Donald Trump derided Iran’s leaders as “deranged scumbags” and said it was his great honor to kill them as the war in the Middle East approached the two-week mark on Friday with heavy exchanges of drone and missile strikes across the region”

Cyprus Mail

Iranian officials have said Supreme Leader Khamenei was "lightly wounded" during the early phase of the war, and Trump has said he believes the cleric is alive but "damaged."

Cyprus Mail

Cyprus Mail reports that Trump "has already declared that the U.S. and Israel won the war" and framed higher oil prices as a national financial benefit.

A central and disputed incident is the Tomahawk strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minabl: The Daily Beast reports the strike "killed at least 175 people, mainly children."

Journalists pressed Trump on responsibility — a New York Times reporter asked why Trump was the only official saying Iran had the missile, and Trump replied, "I just don't know enough about it. I think it’s something that I was told is under investigation."

Modern Diplomacy

Cyprus Mail records that the administration "has not provided a public assessment" of the war’s costs or duration and that Democrats "demanded more information about civilian casualties, particularly a strike that killed dozens of children at an Iranian girls’ school," underscoring conflicting accounts and unanswered questions.

The wider military campaign has been large in scale and disruptive to global energy flows: Modern Diplomacy reports the Israel Defense Forces "struck more than 200 targets in western and central Iran" including "missile launchers, air defence systems and weapons production facilities," and that Iran "responded with a fresh barrage of missiles and drones," with one missile striking a town near Nazareth and "injuring 58 people."

“President Donald Trump made a bloodthirsty late-night social media post boasting that it is his “great honor” to be “killing” Iranians as part of his war, shortly before more U”

The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast says the U.S. and Israeli strikes have "paralyzed the transit of oil through the Strait of Hormuz," and that the Pentagon revealed Trumps "Operation Epic Fury" has cost "U.S. taxpayers $11.3 billion."

Cyprus Mail notes the U.S. moved to stabilise energy markets by issuing "a 30-day license for countries to buy Russian oil and petroleum products currently stranded at sea."

The political reverberations are growing at home and across the region: Cyprus Mail reports that "Trumps comments angered opposition Democrats" who say the president "caring too little about the wars impact" and that officials have offered "conflicting reasons for starting the fight."

The Daily Beast documents his public attacks on the press — calling out the "Failing New York Times" — and argues he has sparred with reporters over civilian casualties and responsibility.

Cyprus Mail

Modern Diplomacy highlights Israeli leaders signalling broader aims, with Benjamin Netanyahu saying Israel was helping create "optimal conditions" for internal upheaval in Iran and also acknowledging strikes that appear to hit Lebanese civilian infrastructure as the war "has also spilled across the region."