Donald Trump, President of the United States, spoke with reporters on Wednesday, 7 Mordad, about the Islamic Republic and its recent missile attack. Trump said: “We will hit them with very hard blows. I can say this with confidence, because they can’t do anything to counter it.” Trump added about the current officials of the Islamic Republic: “This is different from the group we used to deal with. They have already apologized, but in any case we have to give them a bit of a slap.” When asked whether he will always respond to attacks, he said: “Almost always, yes.” In response to the question of whether the action was in reaction to an attempt to launch a ballistic missile attack on the U.S. base in Jordan the previous night, he said: “It’s mostly about that, although another smaller incident had also happened. But they fired five missiles at us at a speed of about 8,000 miles per hour.”