"A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight:" The Day the American President Threatened Genocide (opens in new tab)

The views expressed below are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights or Harvard Kennedy School. These perspectives have been presented to encourage debate on important public policy challenges. April 7, 2026, a Date That Will Live in Infamy On April 7, 2026, the President of the United States wrote on social media that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." He was speaking of Iran and its 90 million p...