U.S. President Donald Trump said an apology by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to neighboring countries on Saturday is a sign Tehran has “surrendered,” while also promising to escalate the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic.
In a post on Truth Social Saturday, Trump dismissed the public apology from Pezeshkian, who said earlier Saturday that his country regrets the retaliatory strikes that Iran has conducted on its neighbors in response to the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran.
The U.S. president said the American military will be ramping up its attacks soon, posting: “Today Iran will be hit very hard!”
He said the Pentagon will expand its range of targets to “groups and people that were not considered for targeting” until now.
An estimated 1,332 Iranian civilians have been killed in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes over the past week, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday.