Donald Trump has urged for everyone to ‘evacuate Tehran’ after a broadcaster was bombed live on air .
The US President urged people to leave the country as the conflict between Israel and Iran escalates.
Tensions reached new levels last week, after Israeli forces struck nuclear and military infrastructure in Iran.
Trump confirmed he would be leaving the G7 security summit being held in Canada, and criticised Iran for refusing to agree to a nuclear deal.
Trump wrote on Truth Social: ‘What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.
‘I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!’
He later added: ‘AMERICA FIRST means many GREAT things, including the fact that, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!’
An Israeli strike hit Iran’s state broadcaster on Monday while a reporter was live on air.
Footage shows the reporter delivering a bulletin on the war while the building begins to shake around her.
The background then becomes dark and dust and smoke can be seen behind her, as she quickly stands up from her desk to make her escape.
G7 leaders described Iran as ‘the principal source of regional instability and terror’ as conflict rages in the Middle East, adding they ‘affirm that Israel has a right to defend itself’.
The confrontation between the two Middle Eastern nations shows no indication of abating despite international pleas for calm.
The UK yesterday placed Israel alongside Iran on its travel red list, blocking anyone from visiting the country as its conflict with Iran escalates.
Israeli rescue teams spent Sunday morning searching for survivors in the rubble of a multistorey building south of Tel Aviv, after an Iranian missile strike killed six.
Nearly 200 were reportedly wounded in the attack on the Bat Yam neighbourhood, while a further four were said to have been killed in a separate strike on a town in the north of the country.
Meanwhile the Iranian ambassador to the UN said 78 people have been killed and more than 320 wounded in Iran since Friday, with top military officials and nuclear scientists among them.
State television said a further 60 were killed in an Israeli strike on a block of flats in Tehran, including 20 children.
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