Washington, July 29 -- United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday, July 29, issued an expletive-laden warning to Iran, declaring that Tehran was "going to get a beating" following an attempted attack on US forces in the Middle East, hours after the US and Saudi Arabia carried out joint airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias in Iraq.

Speaking to Fox News, Trump said, "We are going to beat the f*****g s**t out of them," as he vowed a forceful military response. He described Iranian-backed armed groups as "the cancer of the world" and claimed the operation in Iraq had been coordinated with the Iraqi government.

Trump said the attempted attack had caught US forces by surprise, leaving troops with only minutes to intercept incomin...