President Donald Trump said the U.S. will consider striking areas and groups of people in Iran that were not previously considered targets, escalating a weeklong war that’s upended energy markets and reverberated worldwide.

"Today Iran will be hit very hard!” Trump said in a social media post in the early hours of Saturday, as the U.S. and Israel bombarded Tehran and other cities for an eighth day. The attacks will continue "until they surrender or, more likely, completely collapse!”

The post came after Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed not to back down as Tehran maintained missile strikes on Israel and Gulf states hosting American military forces. "The idea that we would surrender unconditionally — they must take such a dream to the grave,” he said in a speech.

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