Lawes urges Taoiseach to demand assurance from Trump over nuclear weapons

As US President Donald Trump threatened "a whole civilisation will die tonight" (Tuesday), a Navan councillor is urging Taoiseach Micheal Martin to intervene with the president.

Cllr Alan Lawes said he feared President Trump is "crazy enough" to be taking about a nuclear bomb and has written to his fellow councillors urging them to join him in writing to the Taoiseach

"I am asking you to join me in writing to our Taoiseach Micheal Martin to demand that he urgently contacts President Trump.

"The President is on public record threatening Iran in his statement 'A whole civilisation will die tonight'.

"No matter which way you try to interpret that statement you can only conclude that he is threatening to drop a nuclear bomb.

"I am appealing to you all to join me calling on our Taoiseach to contact the President as a matter of urgency and to demand that he tells the President that under no circumstances should he ever consider dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran and to seek assurances from him that no nuclear weapons will be used in this conflict," Cllr Lawes urged his council colleagues.

In a Truth Social post today (Tuesday) Trump said that "a whole civilization will die tonight" as the deadline nears for an agreement on a ceasefire in the war with Iran.

His post came less than 12 hours before he says the United States will launch attacks on Iran's infrastructure over Tehran's continued disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will," the president said in his post