US President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed in a call with G7 leaders that Iran is ‘about to surrender,’ reported Axios citing three people familiar with the contents of the virtual call.
However, about 24 hours later, Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei issued his first public statement since taking office, vowing that the country would continue fighting.
The Iranian regime has shown no signs of imminent surrender or collapse and, on Day 14 of the war on Friday, appeared to be seeking greater leverage by threatening to choke off the Strait of Hormuz.
Khamenei delivered a series of warnings as the conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran intensified, In a statement read out by a news anchor on Iranian state television, he said, “vengeance is priority ‘until fully achieved’.”
What Trump said on G7 call
In the same call, Trump claimed that there were no officials left alive in Tehran to make the decision on weather to continue fight or not, according to Axios’ report.
“Nobody knows who is the leader, so there is no one that can announce surrender,” Trump said, according to two officials cited by US-based news outlet, briefed on the call.
