"BREAKING: Iran RESPONDS to Trump's address as 12,300+ targets struck "

The headline story in this morning's World Socialist Web Site should be read by all war weary Americans : International Committee of the Fourth International (IC In genocidal rant, Trump vows to send Iran “back to the Stone Ages” Andre Damon@Andre__Damon 11 hours ago [Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on a building near the airport road in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. [AP Photo/Hassan Ammar] In a prime-time television address Wednesday, US President Donald Trump declared that the goal of the United States in the Iran war is the destruction of Iranian society. “We are on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly. We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We are going to bring them back to the Stone Ages,” Trump said. Trump threatened that unless the Iranian government accepts his demands, “we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously. We have not hit their oil, even though that’s the easiest target of all, because it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding. But we could hit it and it would be gone, and there’s not a thing they could do about it.” In other words, Trump declared, if Iran does not totally capitulate and become effectively a colonial protectorate of the United States, he intends to wipe out everything that sustains modern life for 90 million people and not give them “even a small chance of survival.” There has never been an address like this given by an American president. Whatever the crimes carried out by former administrations, they were framed as the defense of democracy, self-determination and liberation. Now the American president’s message to the population of an entire country is: accept our demands or die. These are statements of, literally, genocidal intent. To “bomb” a country “back to the Stone Ages” means to destroy its civilization—a civilization that in Iran’s case spans thousands of years. The president of the United States is declaring, on national television, his intention to annihilate an entire country—to level its cities, its power grid, its water supply, its hospitals and its industry, everything that sustains 90 million people.]