Debbie Maes :
Trump threatened to assassinate the very people his own team was negotiating peace with. Then he warned that Iran "won't have a country" left. Hours later, Iran's delegation walked out of the talks and demanded that he apologize.
Here's what happened. JD Vance, was in Switzerland leading peace negotiations with Iran, and by his own account it was going well. He talked about turning "a new leaf" and called it "a historic meeting."
Then Trump got on the phone.
In a series of expletive-laden calls and social media posts, the President of the United States unloaded.
He threatened to restart his bombing campaign. He threatened to "take over" Iran with a full-scale invasion. He said the country "won't have a country."
And most stunning of all, multiple outlets reported that he threatened to assassinate the negotiators themselves, the very men sitting across the table from his own diplomats, in the middle of a peace summit.
Think about how deranged that is.
You send your team to make peace, and then you threaten to kill the other side while they're still in the building.
This is a man who has now threatened, on the record, to wipe out an entire nation's "whole civilization" more than once. And once again, the threats did the opposite of what he wanted.
Iran's delegation filed a formal complaint with the Pakistani and Qatari mediators, refused to even pose for photographs with the American team, and walked out of the luxury resort where the talks were being held. They said they would not come back until Trump apologized.
Unbelievable.
The other side found the President of the United States so unhinged, so out of control, that they got up and left rather than stay in a room with a man openly threatening to have them killed.
Iran's chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, didn't even pretend to be rattled. "We do not take American threats into account," he said. "They would do better to be careful with their statements. Our armed forces are ready to respond. No matter what they say, we are the ones who act."
Then he asked the question Trump can't answer: "Don't they think that if their threats had worked, they wouldn't have ended up in today's despera
2026-06-23 18:41:19