Iran is no longer Middle East bully, Trump says

Iran has apologized to its Middle East neighbors and promised not to fire at them anymore, US President Donald Trump said on Saturday.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Iran made that promise only because of what he called relentless US and Israeli attacks.

“Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack. They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East,” he wrote on Truth Social.

President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a televised speech on Saturday that he apologizes to neighboring countries, adding that the interim leadership council had instructed the armed forces to stop striking them unless attacks against Iran originate from those countries.

Trump said Iran had once sought to “take over and rule the Middle East” but is now “THE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST.”

Iran, he added, would be “hit very hard” on Saturday and warned that additional areas and groups of people were under consideration for targeting.

Some of those targets, the US president said, had not previously been considered, citing Iran’s “bad behavior.”