Donald Trump, the U.S. president, warned on Monday, 29 Tir, on the social media platform Truth Social that the Islamic Republic will face a very severe response in the event that any American military personnel are killed. Trump wrote: “Each time Iran kills an American soldier, it will pay several times the price.” He added that he had communicated this order to Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Dan Kin, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and all military commanders.