Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested if he visits the US, US President Donald Trump insisted in a post on Truth Social on Monday.
Netanyahu “is fighting against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which recently killed 52,000 innocent protestors, and has spent the last 47 years killing American soldiers, and others,” Trump said.
The only individuals who should be arrested, Trump added, are those who “led Iran into this unprecedented spiral of death and destruction.”
Trump was referring to comments made by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who told the New York Times that Netanyahu belongs in the Hague, and that he is investigating arresting the PM at the UN General Assembly in September.
In a separate post, Trump stated that for every US soldier killed, Iran will pay “many times over.”
“Every time Iran kills an American soldier, they will pay for that killing many times over,” he said.
Trump also stated that he has passed a directive to enforce his words onto US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, and all US military leaders.
This is a developing story.
