DUBAI/BEIRUT 每 U.S. President Donald Trump derided Iran*s leaders as ※deranged scumbags§ and said it was his great honor to kill them as the war in the Middle East approached the two-week mark on Friday with heavy exchanges of drone and missile strikes across the region.
The conflict, which began with joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, has killed more than 2,000 people, disrupted the lives of millions of others and shaken energy and financial markets across the globe.
In a post on social media late on Friday, Trump said the U.S. was ※totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran.§
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