Trump demanded on Friday morning an “unconditional surrender” from Iran, saying that there would be “no deal” except for that. This comes amid the United States’ Operation Epic Fury in Iran, in which the Ayatollah and other top officials have been killed by US strikes. 

Trump wrote, “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. ‘MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!).’”

In an event at the White House on Thursday, Trump called for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iran, as well as the military and policy, to “lay down their arms” or face “absolutely guaranteed death.” He also called on Iranian diplomats to help “shape a new and better Iran.”

US CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper revealed Thursday that the US military “struck nearly 200 targets deep inside of Iran, including around Tehran” in the preceding 72 hours. He also said that within an hour of the press conference, US bombers dropped “dozens of 2,000-pound penetrator bombs targeting deeply buried ballistic missile launchers,” and that as he spoke, an Iranian drone carrier ship was on fire after being struck. 

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that “Iran is hoping that we cannot sustain this, which is a really bad miscalculation for the IRGC in Iran. You see, there’s no shortage of American will here.” He later added, “Our commitment to our mission objectives only increases as our advantages continue to increase. We’ve got no shortage of munitions. Our stockpiles of defensive and offensive weapons allow us to sustain this campaign as long as we need to. Again, our munition status only increases as our advantage increases. Our capabilities, we have only just begun to fight and fight decisively.”
 

“The amount of combat power that’s still flowing, that’s still coming, that we’ll be able to project over Iran is a multiples of what it currently is right now, when you add up our capabilities and those of the Israeli Defense Forces, and we have no shortage of authorities.”