Trump repeats threat to ‘hit Iran hard’ if protesters killedpublished at 20:43 GMT
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US President Donald Trump says he has let the Iranian government know “if they start killing people” then “we are going to hit them very hard”.
“I have let them know that if they start killing people, which they tend to do during their riots – they have lots of riots – if they do it, we are going to hit them very hard,” Trump said in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt earlier today.
“We’re watching it very closely,” he says of the situation. “They know, and they have been told very strongly, even more strongly than I am speaking to you right now, that if they do that they are going to have to pay hell.”
Asked what his message is to people of Iran, he says “you should feel strongly about freedom”, before going on to criticise what has happened in the country under the current regime.
It’s the latest threat from the US president to intervene, after making similar remarks on Sunday.
“We’re watching it very closely. If they start killing people like they have in the past, I think they’re going to get hit very hard by the United States,” Trump said at the weekend.
