New Delhi, April 7 -- After US President Donald Trump's threat to wipe out Iran, Lawrence Sellin, a retired US Army Reserve colonel, advised the United States to "immediately cease joint military operations with Israel."

The Iraq and Afghanistan veteran reacted to Trump's social media post on Tuesday to say that the "US military will not obey illegal orders." He also warned that "the issuance of illegal orders would create a Constitutional crisis."

Sellin opined that Israel, "which wants to prolong the war, may do something rash and drag the US into it."

"The US must immediately cease joint military operations with Israel," Sellin wrote on X.

Sellin was reacting to Trump's statement on Truth Social, wherein he threatened Iran, saying ...