PRESIDENT Donald Trump has been warned there can be no win in Iran without a ground offensive, after the president declared he is not afraid of another Vietnam.
Kurdish commander Babasheikh Hosseini said the bloodthirsty Iranian regime will not fall without boots on the ground.
Hosseini gave the US a chilling ultimatum, saying: “If we are not on this battlefield, the end of the regime will either not occur, or be delayed by a lot.”
He told The Telegraph he wants US backing, saying: “We can still launch an invasion alone, but with their help it will be much better.”
It came as Trump told reporters that he did not fear another Vietnam.
He was asked in the Oval Office: “Are you afraid that if you put boots on the ground in Iran, it could be another Vietnam?”
The president shot back: “No. I’m not afraid of anything.”
More than 58,000 US soldiers were killed in the brutal Vietnam War, in a drawn-out conflict that lasted two decades.
Trump threatened to take out Tehran’s entire energy grid, after a dramatic exchange of blows at Middle Eastern gas plants yesterday sent oil prices rocketing.
He said: “We could take out their electric capacity in one hour.
“There’s nothing they can do.”
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Hosseini heads up the Khabat Organisation, an exiled Iranian Kurdish armed group based in Iraq.
He said: “If our peshmerga were on the ground, and we told the people of Rojhelat to rise, then the fall of the regime would have been much closer by now.
The commander wants answers from Trump, who he said has given the Kurds mixed messages.
Asked about a Kurdish ground attack at the start of the war, the US President said: “I think it’s wonderful that they want to do that, I’d be all for it.”
Days later, he seemed to switch tack, saying: “The war is complicated enough without getting the Kurds involved.”
It comes as mysterious drones spotted over the military base in Washington that houses Trump’s top brass triggered security to be ramped up.
The unidentified unmanned aircraft were seen over a base home to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, sparking serious security concerns.
Barrages of attacks continue in the Middle East as Iran trades blows with the US and its allies.
Yesterday, Iran threatened retaliation after Israeli strikes hit the South Pars gas field, which produces around three quarters of the regime’s oil.
The rogue nation hit back, hammering Qatar’s critical Ras Laffan LNG export hub with blows that caused “extensive damage”.
And the strikes saw a furious Donald Trump give a chilling warning.
The president wrote: “NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar.
“In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before.
“I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications that it will have on the future of Iran, but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so.”
