Trump warns Iran's Rouhani: Threaten us 'and you will suffer'

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: The Hill

President Trump on Sunday night warned that if threats from Tehran persisted then Iran "would suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before."

In a tweet, written in all caps and directed explicitly at Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Trump wrote: "Never, ever threaten the United States again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. We are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence & death. Be cautious!"

Trump's message comes after Rouhani issued his own warning to the U.S. president earlier on Sunday.

“America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars,” Rouhani told a group of diplomats.

Trump's tweet also came shortly after his secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, delivered remarks on Iran at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Sunday evening. During his address, Pompeo compared Iran's leaders to the mafia, while also declaring U.S. support for the people of Iran, especially protesters who have taken to the streets recently in opposition to the current regime.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/398298-trump-warns-irans-rouhani-threaten-us-and-you-will-suffer

[Grassy Knoll]

1. Trump Is Going To Shit And Fall In It..

...Worst President Ever..The Biggest Disaster To Embarrass The USA.
Complete Fool. Fuck Off.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

26. "Complete Fool" is being kind!! The Fascist-in-Chief is UNHINGED and is going to get us all killed!!

No time for impeachment... time to invoke the 25th Amendment NOW!!! It's also time for Mueller to.get off his ass and indite that insane mothafucka!!! When are people going to WAKE THE FUCK UP?!?!

[exboyfil]

2. We are back to the mother of all wars

[matt819]

3. Ho hum

threat, threat, threat. God this is exhausting. They’re laughing st him Tehran.

[Old Crow]

4. This article does not convey just how deranged the tweet appears.

Although it mentions that the tweet was written in full caps, it reproduces the tweet, incorrectly, with normal, sentence-style capitalization. Just to be clear, this is how the tweet reads:

To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!

Our president is unhinged--a megalomaniacal man-child.

[lastlib]

9. SHIT. That basturd is F&UCKED UP in the head!

And we, the American people are F&UCKED!

[Old Crow]

11. Agreed.

I think it's pretty clear at this point that Donald J. Trump is the most dangerous, most mentally ill person to ever occupy the Oval Office. What's equally alarming is that there is a broad swath of American society that supports his every move. I recently read a comment of one DU'er who described the Trump supporters as being a cult. I thought it was funny hyperbole, at first, but I now think it's an accurate description.

It is almost unbelievable how bad things are. It is the worst state of affairs in American politics in my lifetime.

[47of74]

34. That's why I call Spanky McFuckface supporters Branch Trumpvidians.

[classof56]

45. Hey, I like that and hereby add it to my lexicon.

Thanks!

[Girard442]

5. You're drunk Donnie. Go home.

[Mosby]

6. I think this could escalate.

Trump is looking for reasons to militarily engage with Iran.

[sandensea]

7. I wouldn't put it past the Orange Oaf (and Bolton) to stage something in September.

As Trump himself noted earlier this year, it worked for Dubya.

[lambchopp59]

8. This story, exception of Trump's unhinged reaction, is getting distorted by the sources.

Google "Iran's president Hassan Rouhani" and see how many versions you get. Two of the articles I've read on this today mention US propaganda arms are attempting to stir Iran unrest.
UPI article skips that observation, here's a paste of their article:

Iran president on Sunday warned President Donald Trump that threatening to block oil exports will lead to the "mother of all wars."
"Mr Trump! We are the honest men who have throughout history guaranteed the safety of this region's waterways," Hassan Rouhani told Trump in a televised speech. "Do not play with the lion's tail, it will bring regret."
Trump is reimposing sanctions on Iran after deciding to pull out of the 2015 international deal to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. With the sanctions, Iran's oil exports could fall by as much as two-thirds by the end of the year, Sky News reported.
Originally Trump demanded all other countries to stop buying its crude by November but now he says the United States may grant waivers to some allies heavily particularly reliant on Iranian supplies.
"America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars," Rouhani said. "You are not in a position to incite the Iranian nation against Iran's security and interests."
If the United States stops exports, Iran would halt oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, Esmail Kowsari, deputy commander of the Sarollah Revolutionary Guards base in Tehran, said earlier this month.
Iran and other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iraq, ship much of their crude through the Strait of Hormuz. Tankers carry about 30 percent of all seaborne-traded crude oil and other liquids.
Rouhani suggested that Iran has alternatives to shipping crude through Hormuz.
"No one who really understands politics would say they will block Iran's oil exports, and we have many straits, the Strait of Hormuz is just one of those," Rouhani said.
Rouhani said he wants improved relations with Saudi Arabia but the kingdom needs "change its actions, let go of obstinacy and be willing to have relations."

Now, just what warmongering version of the story is Fox displaying? I'm afraid to look.

[greyl]

10. Trump tweets in 2013 re Iran and Obama:

Link to tweet

[sakabatou]

12. There's a Trump tweet for every occasion!

[dalton99a]

13. DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH

Idiot is so predictable

Link to tweet

[Fred Sanders]

40. Yes...and exactly how was the one sentence in a much larger speech a "threat"?

We are all being duped because the media here is purposely twisting the words of Rouhani, which was not a tweet, for war monger if purposes. Handing a gift to the warmongerer.

Fuck them all.

[Jopin Klobe]

14. Trump warns Iran's Rouhani: Threaten us 'and you will suffer'

... 'I'll come over there and make a speech!' ...

[SkatmanRoth]

25. I fart in your general direction

[SunSeeker]

15. The Hill headline should have used all caps to more accurately reflect the full crazy of the tweet.

I hoped everyone reports Trump's tweet, as it violates Twitter TOS.

[TomCADem]

16. Don't Worry. Cornel West and Sarandon...

....said that Hillary would more likely lead to war. Another reason to be skeptical of independent and Green Party alternatives to the Democratic Party.

[duforsure]

17. After seeing how weak he is against putin and NK

And after his threats towards NK, I think they know how unfit he is , and unstable he is, and how he did nothing to NK but give stuff away to them for nothing in return, and he acts like putin is his hero , and he worships him with his loyalty. trumps a total mess now and needs to be removed from office for working for putin, before he does something more dangerously stupid, again. The republicans are responsible for allowing this idiot , and tool for putin to remain in office where he could start a war , just for distractions. Watch how quickly oil prices rise now, and helps putin, while hurting the US economy. That probably is his intentions.

[Kablooie]

18. Think he's referring to nuclear weapons?

He may go down in history as in equal in evil to Hitler.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. Response from Ted Lieu:

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

23. Bravo to Ted Lieu!

[BeckyDem]

46. + 100.

[yuiyoshida]

20. Uh, IRAN doesn't have Twitter...

Link to tweet

[watoos]

21. Maybe he couldn't "perform"

for Melania last night so he took it out on Iran?

I know that Putin is working with Iran but a war with Iran will raise gas prices and help Russia's economy.

[Norbert]

22. Let some ass hole get behind a keyboard and he can be Gen Patton

SMH

[raccoon]

24. Spoken like a typical bully. The man is fucking crazy. Nt

[Vinca]

27. If he keeps this up we won't have to worry about saving Social Security and Medicare.

[Maxheader]

28. Irans turn to raise

the gnome-handed buffoons blood pressure...china next. They take
turns to see how rabid they can make it.

[Snellius]

38. Shouldn't take long to call his bluff, then ...

Trump is put into the position of either nuking them (what?) or backing down (loser!). Like he dealt with North Korea, Trump has some death wish to self-destruct. And to take us down with him.

[Maxheader]

41. Not only tRump...

50% of this country seems bound to destroy americus
democracy and freedoms..

[Snellius]

44. It's true and a serious problem we don't understand

I've been on DU a long time and and, as a historian, followed politics in several countries, especially in Germany, even longer and I still don't understand the motivations of the modern American right. The only common factor is that they hate the "others", "us". But it is very difficult to understand who "us" is to them. But that hatred has become so stubborn and unthinking that they are willing risk everything, even knowing they are on the losing side of history. Long answer, sorry, but it's a real question that democratic parties are going to have to deal with. Soon.

[Maxheader]

50. Good response...

[liberal N proud]

29. Did Iran threaten us?

Did I miss something?

[watoos]

32. They said something to the effect

of not messing around with Iran's government and country.

[PossiblePasts]

30. Could be two reasons...

Either a smoke screen for something his administration is about to do, or provoke a war to increase his ratings.

[turbinetree]

31. More deflection there sexual predator....................do you feel the walls closing in

for a narcissistic megalomaniac..............................and a traitor, that committed treason...............and your hack Nunes and "ayn rand" ryan just released the names of judges that approve FISA warrants......................you have now place the rule of law in danger.................just so that you can get up and rant so that you are protected from TREASON.....................FUCK YOU



November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.....................vote

[pazzyanne]

33. Oh, great!

The US head bully is at it again. Get ready for gas prices to triple. If lucky, we won't declare war on Iran. I suspect that is on tRump's wish list.

[BlueIdaho]

35. Or What?

He’ll take a meeting with them?

[Bengus81]

36. Donnie is gettig the Bush "Terra Threat" color chart out again just before mid-terms.............

Meanwhile his Oil buddies will raise gas prices by a dime within a week and another dime the week after..........

[Snellius]

37. Just "THREATEN" US? Then we nuke them? REALLY CRAZY!

This is all reality-TV talk. Psycho-babble. Trump's wet dream fantasy life. That is, unreality reality. It's surprising that news organizations haven't put psychiatrists on their staff.

[NewJeffCT]

39. Didn't Trump make similar threats against North Korea around a year ago?

You know, fire & fury like the world has never seen?

And now, Kim Jong Un and the world are either laughing at Trump or facepalming over him.

[pangaia]

42. "During his address, Pompeo compared Iran's leaders to the mafia..."

Boy, THAT'S rich.

[Bengus81]

43. Pffftttt....Iran has been spewing "Death to America" now for what....FORTY YEARS or more?

But leave it to SHITler to run to his shitter and Twitter to make "sumpin about it" to deflect from kissing Putin hiney.

[steve2470]

47. Hysterical deranged tweets IN ALL CAPS....

Does anyone in their right mind still think Trump is fit for office ? It takes huge levels of denial and delusion to think this man is fit for office.

[workinclasszero]

48. Commander Bone Spurs

sure is tough when other people are going to be doing the dying huh?

[JCMach1]

49. Rattling sabres for his Saudi and Russian puppet masters

any move that gets oil back into profit...

[Sneederbunk]

51. Shades of Dotard and Rocket Man.