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Democratic US Representative Rashida Tlaib has warned that Donald Trump could “slaughter 100 million people” if a deal is not reached tonight, saying it is “clear he is unfit to be president”.
Detroit’s U.S. House representatives on Tuesday joined dozens of other Democrats in Congress calling for the removal of the president donald trump He was removed from office after he threatened that “an entire civilization will die tonight” if a deal was not reached with Iran.
Other Michigan Democrats did not go as far, but they also criticized Trump’s comments, calling them offensive and “morally wrong.”
“After bombing a school and massacring young girls, a war criminal in the White House is threatening genocide,” Tlaib posted on social media. “This lunatic should be removed from office.”
Trump had threatened to “kill” 100 million people, Thanedar said: “It is clear he is unfit to be president, the 25th Amendment must be invoked. If Vance, Rubio and others continue to be spineless cowards, Congress must do everything possible to stop Trump and this war.”
Thanedar also wrote a letter to 16 members of Trump’s Cabinet on Tuesday, urging them to take action.
Trump vowed on Monday that if no deal was reached by 1 a.m. he would destroy “every bridge” and power station in Iran in just four hours.
In response, some Iranians have formed “human chains” outside bridges and power plants after authorities urged people to gather at potential US and Israeli targets.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has warned that an attack on the Bushehr nuclear power plant would lead to a disaster similar to Fukushima in 2011, which killed more than 18,500 people.
A horrifying nuclear map shows the consequences (Image: supplied)
Other predictions are more dire.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has long warned that even a “limited” nuclear war would trigger a “nuclear winter”, blocking sunlight and causing global agricultural collapse and famine for billions of people.
The White House has denied actively planning a nuclear attack, although the President’s public warning that “the entire civilization will die tonight” has kept global tensions at an all-time high.
Modern nuclear weapons are significantly more powerful than the 15 kiloton bomb dropped on Hiroshima, which killed about 140,000 people by the end of 1945.
Research published by American physician Frederick M. Berkeley predicted that a 500 kt nuclear device dropped on Tehran would kill about 86% of the city’s population of 8 million.
But survivors face long-term risks such as acute radiation syndrome and cancer.
Medical experts say 65% ​​of survivors will be at risk of secondary bacterial infections, complicated by antibiotic resistance.
And frightening maps show that depending on wind patterns, radioactive smoke from attacks in central Iran could reach Pakistan and northern India within 48 to 72 hours.
Pakistan, which is acting as mediator, has called on Trump to extend his deadline by two weeks “to allow diplomacy to run its course”.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said: “Diplomatic efforts for a peaceful resolution of the ongoing war in the Middle East are moving forward steadily, strongly and powerfully and are likely to yield concrete results in the near future.
“To allow diplomacy to do its job, I urge President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks.
“Pakistan sincerely requests the Iranian brothers to open the Strait of Hormuz for a period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture.
“We urge all warring parties to observe a two-week ceasefire everywhere to allow diplomacy to lead to a decisive end to the war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region.”
