Trump Again Threatens To 'Annihilate' Iran In Genocidal UN Speech

“It's one thing to make genocidal threats against a nation on social media. It's another thing to do it from the podium of the UN,” University of Colorado Law School associate professor Maryam Jamshidi said on X.“That's what Donald Trump just did. He used his speech at the UN to threaten Iran with annihilation.”

While Jamshidi urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and member states to condemn Trump's threat, independent journalist Taylor Noakes said of Trump that“what's particularly sad about this (aside from the fact he'll likely never be prosecuted for war crimes) is how so many leaders of other liberal democracies have stood by and done nothing while the Americans make a mockery of the UN as an instrument for global order.”

The Democratic veterans group VoteVets accused Trump of“casually contemplating war crimes in front of the entire UN [General] Assembly,” calling his threat“deranged and dangerous.”

Journalist Mehdi Hasan said:“For shame. The president of the United States goes to the United Nations and threatens genocide against a UN member state in front of the world. This is where we're at.”

Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy and a former adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), called Trump's comments“dangerously unhinged.”

“Such rhetoric is not merely reckless, it is a criminal threat of genocide against an entire nation,” he added.“US lawmakers and US partners around the world should condemn Trump's remarks and take all due steps to bring an end to the war on Iran.”

Trump didn't just openly mull committing war crimes, he groundlessly boasted in his speech that the US“has carried out dozens of strikes on cartel drug boats, destroying 97% of the drugs coming into the ocean and sea.”

Citing data from US Southern Command and Trump administration officials, The New York Times says that at least 234 people have been killed in a minimum of 70 strikes on boats allegedly smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. The administration has provided no solid evidence to support its trafficking allegations.

Regional leaders and relatives of victims contend that at least some people killed in the strikes were fishers with no narcotrafficking ties. Legal experts assert that the attacks violate international law regardless of whether or not the targeted vessels were engaged in drug trafficking.