Trump issues midnight ultimatum as Iran's president apologizes for missiles aimed at neighbors

3 minutes of readingUpdated: Mar 7, 2026 06:51 pm IST

US President Donald Trump said Saturday that Iran will be “badly hit tonight,” accusing the country of plotting to “take over and govern” the country. middle eastern countries. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he was considering expanding the areas and groups of people he targets.

The US president said in his post: “Iran, which is being beaten to hell, apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it would not shoot at them again. This promise was only made because of the relentless attack by the United States and Israel. They sought to take control and rule the Middle East. It is the first time that Iran has lost, in thousands of years, to the surrounding Middle East countries.”

Trump also said that Iran is no longer the “bully of the Middle East” and called the country the “loser of the Middle East.” He also said that Iran will be “badly hit” tonight, without giving many details.

“Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious considerations of complete destruction and certain death, due to Iran’s bad behavior, there are areas and groups of people that were not considered targets until this moment,” he wrote in his post.

Iran apologizes to its neighbors

This came shortly after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian apologized for launching attacks on neighboring countries amid the ongoing conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran. In his statement a week after the war, Pezeshkian also rejected Trump’s repeated demands for surrender.

The conflict between Iran, the United States and Israel continued on Saturday, marking the eighth day of the war that has spread across the region, shaken global markets and air travel and left Iran’s own leadership greatly weakened by hundreds of Israeli and American airstrikes.

The conflict began when an airstrike on February 28 killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose funeral is now delayed amid continued airstrikes from both sides.

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In a statement, the deputy chief of Pezeshkian’s office said Iran “will never submit to coercion and its armed forces will provide a firm response to attacks from US bases in the region.”

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