NEW DELHI, Apr 7: The United States Vice President JD Vance had warned Iran that America has “tools in our toolkit that we so far haven’t decided to use” yet. He expressed his “hope” that negotiations would prevent their deployment.
Fears of a potential nuclear attack on Iran were heightened by his remarks. However, the White House denied on Tuesday that the US has any plans about a nuclear strike on Iran. The White House said on X, “Literally nothing @VP said here ‘implies’ this, you absolute buffoons.” The post was in response to one from an account associated with former vice president Kamala Harris that said Vance implied Trump “might use nuclear weapons.”
Earlier in the day, Trump had issued a big warning to Iran and said the “whole civilisation will die tonight.” In a post on Truth Social, he said that, although he does not want it to happen, “it probably will.”
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” he wrote. He said that tonight will be “one of the most important moments” in world history, as 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death will “finally end.”
The Iranian Embassy in South Africa replied to Trump, saying, “You and your allies will suffer an unforgettable hit from the ancient civilisation of Iran.” The Iranian Embassy in Turkiye also hit back saying, a “psychopath’s threat” will not end what time could not. The post read, “Alexander burned it. The Mongols ravaged it. History tested it. Iran is still here. A psychopath’s threats won’t end what time couldn’t.”
(Manas Dasgupta)