Alisha Rahaman Sarkar, James C. Reynolds & Rebecca Whittaker – The Independent May 18, 2026
Iran threatened on Monday it would respond with “full strength” to any attack, after Donald Trump warned “there won’t be anything left of them” if they fail to rush through a deal to end the war.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said Tehran is continuing to “pursue diplomacy with seriousness,” but that the Islamic Republic “will not be subdued by contradictory behavior and threats from the opposing side.”
“We are fully prepared for every scenario,” he said, warning that, “in the event of any reckless action we will respond with full strength, and I assure you that our armed forces will definitely have new ‘surprises’ for the enemy.”
Donald Trump had urged on his Truth Social platform that the “clock is ticking” to end the war, as peace talks appear to have stalled.
Iran is understood to have relayed its latest peace offer to the United States via Pakistan, although a Pakistani source said both sides “keep changing their goalposts”.
Marjorie Taylor Greene warns of ‘revolution in America’ if Trump sends troops into Iran
Marjorie Taylor Greene has said there would be “political revolution in” the U.S. if President Trump deploys American soldiers in Iran.
It is unclear what exactly prompted the former Republican representative and one-time Trump ally to issue the warning, though reports indicate the US and Israel are preparing for renewed fighting amid the fragile month-old ceasefire.
“If you send in U.S. military troops into Iran, there is going to be a political revolution in America. WE. ARE. DONE. We said no more foreign wars and we meant it,” said Greene in a Sunday afternoon post on X. “The coalition will unite and be unstoppable. I’ll make sure of it.”
“End this war. It’s stupid,” she added.
In Trump’s latest social media outburst on Sunday towards Tehran, he warned that the “clock is ticking” as peace negations between the U.S. and Iran stall.
“For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The president last week rejected Iran’s response to Washington’s latest peace proposal as “totally unacceptable” after Tehran requested separate nuclear talks from peace negotiations.
Greene, who left Congress in January, has repeatedly voiced her opposition to the U.S. war against Iran, directly challenging the “mental state” of President Trump shortly after the conflict began.
“I want to say, what is happening to the man that I supported, you supported, the man that denounced what happened in Iraq, the man that said ‘No more foreign wars,’ ‘No more regime change?’” Greene told conservative commentator Megyn Kelly two days after the U.S.’s initial strikes February 28.
“Promised it on the campaign. JD Vance promised it. Tulsi Gabbard promised it, all of them promised it,” she added. “And we’re a year in, a year in, and we’re in another f****** war, and we’ve got American troops being killed.”
Greene had once been a close ally of the president and has echoed his claims that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen”.
Since last year, however, the former representative for Georgia’s 14th congressional district has broken with Trump over several domestic and foreign policy positions, including his decision to launch airstrikes on Iran last June, his support for Israel during the war in Gaza, and insufficient regulation of big tech.
MTG. Another “I used to support him but now I don’t” liar who “made” hundreds of millions for herself but is now “on your side (honest, I am)”.
Controlled opposition to make you believe there is opposition.
New surprises doesn’t necessarily mean new weapons. Sinking a few US naval vessels next time, that’ll be a new surprise.
MJT is correct that most Americans are sick and tired of wars for Jews! What happened to the ‘man’ who she supported was, her , I and millions of others were duped by the con man Judas goat Trump. The deep state placed Trump there to do exactly what he’s doing, giving the Jews the destruction of Iran ! Next phase in the fake elections they’ll give us a communist to continue the subversion and destruction of America .An amoral creature of which there’s a huge selection in government Based on destructive power alone probably Newsom. America is being played like a fiddle and the false dichotomy of left and right is used as a prop. Both political parties are simply the Epstein class employees of Israel!
Oh, they are threatening again! Oh horror war is coming! Though what is threatening the most is all these familiar faces of the Perlman dynasty popping up every where on global screens.
Bigger cojones than 98% of the alleged men of the U.S. carny Congress.