Bangladesh, April 19 -- It is hard to exaggerate the dire implications of Trumps April 7 post on Truth Social, stating that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” if no deal is reached with Iran. Such a damning statement implies that he would use ‘weapons of mass destruction, i.e., nuclear, to execute his threat. Obviously, he cannot destroy such a huge country and annihilate a population of 95 million with conventional weapons. Even though Trump was unlikely to carry out his threat, what he said was not taken lightly by either Iran or much of the international community.

International outrage over Trumps threat

Trumps outrageous statement has drawn an extraordinary wave of condemnatio...