Iranian Leader Rejects Trump’s Surrender Option
…says Imposition Impossible
By Yadnom Awu/Asaba
Iran’ s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, today, bluntly rejected the offer of unconditional surrender made to it by American President, Donald Trump.
In a recorded message broadcast on Iranian media, the Supreme Leader rejected the offer by Trump who had, in making it, warned that Iran might be wiped out, in the event of a protracted military conflict between it and Israel.
He affirmed that any imposed ceasefire conditions were totally unacceptable.
Iran, he added, would fight on in its military conflict with the Jewish state.
The defiance of the Iranian
leader comes just hours after Trump ,in a social media post, threatened to kill him.
In the post, Trump said America knew where the Iranian strong man was hiding and could kill him, but not for now.
Trump, in an earlier encounter with newsmen as he flew from Alberta back home from a G-7 meeting in Canada, had said that Iran must surrender unconditionally to Israel in order to resume its nuclear programme talks with America.
Those talks were due to resume penultimate Sunday,but Israel, in an apparently pre- emotive strike, torpedoed it by launching a military onslaught against Iran, two days earlier.
That onslaught is in the sixth day and both countries have exchanged high calibre gunfire.
Israel, shielded aerially by America and British air defence platforms, is deploying its high calibre fighter jets and drones to target military installations, personnel and the echelon of Iran’s nuclear scientists.
Officials tallies hold that Israel has killed in excess of 240 Iranians and wounded nearly 1,000 others, since the shooting war began.
Iran, which is deploying its hypersonic missiles, has reportedly killed at least 24 Israelis and wounded about 400 others in attacks on Tel- Aviv, capital of Israel and Haifa, the port city, among others.
Experts say the extent of damage in Israel is actually unknown, given that Israel has a long standing policy of intended censorship of its military and security engagements.
