US President Donald Trump warned Iran to stop supporting proxies in Lebanon, warning that he could resume strikes on the country should they fail to do so in a Sunday Truth Social post.
“Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble,” Trump wrote, implying Hezbollah.
“If they don’t, we’ll hit Iran very hard again,” he added.
Additionally, Trump warned Iran not to close the Strait of Hormuz in an overnight conversation, Fox News reported Sunday.
“You close it, and you won’t have a country,” Trump said he told Iranian officials, according to the Fox News report. “You won’t even make it back to your f***ing country.”
“We may take over the Strait, if we have to,” Trump commented to the channel.
“I’ll blow the s*** out of them,” he added.
Moreover, Trump once again floated the idea of letting Syria fight Hezbollah during the call, reportedly being of the belief that its forces would be more precise than the IDF.
Trump first publicly suggested letting Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa fight Hezbollah in Israel’s place at the sidelines of the G7 summit in France, after having criticized Israel’s strikes as being too inaccurate.
