Trump’s repeated threats to ‘wipe out’ Iran are normalizing mass violence | Mohamad Bazzi

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:20 GMT

The president’s latest warning barely registered, written off as typical behavior. But the threats have real-world consequencesAs the US and Iran fought around the strait of Hormuz last week, Donald Trump issued one of his typical threats. In an interview with a Fox News correspondent, Trump said Iran would be “totally wiped out as a country” if it retaliated for the latest wave of US air strikes.That threat by the US president to wipe out another country generated few headlines, even during a relatively slow news week by Trump administration standards. Continue reading...

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