Trump tells ‘everyone’ to ‘immediately evacuate Tehran’

Donald Trump has said “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” hours after Israel issued an evacuation order to residents of a large part of Tehran on Monday.

“Iran should have signed the “deal” I told them to sign. What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!,” the US president said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social.

Washington and Tehran had been in the midst of nuclear negotiations when Israel launched its shock attack on Iran on Friday.

Tehran has a population of about 9 million and it’s currently just after 4am.

Hours before Trump’s comments Israeli forces had issued an evacuation order to residents of a large part of Tehran, warning them of the imminent bombing of “military infrastructure” in the area in a social media post very similar to those regularly directed at Palestinians in Gaza over the past 20 months.

The post on X was from the account of the Israel Defense Forces’ Arabic spokesperson, Col Avichay Adraee.

It is a further sign of the evolving nature of the Israeli campaign against Iran, which began with attacks on air defences, nuclear sites and the military chain of command, but appears to have drifted towards a war of attrition focused on Iran’s oil and gas industry and on the capital. (The Guardian)