Donald Trump said Sunday that if no peace deal is reached with Iran in the next 48 hours, “we’re blowing up the entire country.”

The president made the threat Sunday to ABC News’ senior political correspondent Rachel Scott in response to a question regarding whether his previously stated timeline of two to three weeks for a deal was still accurate.

Concerns have been raised about targeting civilian infrastructure in Iran and the consequences that could bring.

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    “we’re blowing up the entire country.”

    What country is that? USA?
    For those not aware, Trump is actively destroying USA not Iran.
    For every escalation USA is just making it worse for themselves.

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    Remember the big present and that no one knew who was leading the country but he’s talking to the right people and they gave a beautiful prize

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      8 hours ago

      I saw him down at the bus station screaming at a vending machine. I gave him a dollar.

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    I live in a country where this one guy, all by himself, is allowed to just decide to murder thousands and thousands of people just because he wants to, over and over again. And, there’s no consequences, no check, no pushback, nothing that the other 300 million of us can do about it. Why do we tolerate this? Why is this just accepted as normal, even by the majority of people who disagree with him? I just cannot get over what a shit country the US is. Our government, our politics, our media, our culture, the people who live here are just endlessly awful. Will some nation, please just fucking do something about us?

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      As someone who doesn’t live in your country, I think I speak for a lot of people that we will never forgive America as a whole for what has happened under Trump.

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    This guy has never had any clue what he’s doing, only what he wants and how to get it. Now, he’s finally hit something completely out of his grasp and just like any narcissist, he’s not handling it well.

    He will tear continue to chew through the entire world consuming people, economies, countries, and society until he’s stopped. This is the danger of dictators.

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      We’ve all been warning the Iran hawks this wouldn’t end well if they tried, for 25 years or more. This president is the only one dumb, and compromised by Israel enough, to not listen.

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      This comment could have been posted word-for-word in February/March 2020 and it would have had the exact same meaning. Even if Trump completely blunders this conflict it will ultimately be someone else’s mess to clean up.

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    21 hours ago

    How many hours ago was the first threat? I feel like we keep repeating ourselves.

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      He said it basically on several occasions now, all of which he backed down from. The guy is desperate. Iran has no incentive to deal with him.