Iranian-American Recounts Family's Fear After Trump's April Warning to Iran Before Ceasefire

Setareh, an Iranian woman who was born and raised in Iran before moving to the United States, told CBS News that her family members in Iran feared for their lives after President Trump posted in early April that a whole civilization could die that night.

The post came hours before the president announced a ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, CBS News reported. At the time of the interview the war had entered its fourth month, and the agreement had already been tested several times.

"They were scared too," Setareh, who asked that her last name not be used, told CBS News' Lindsey Reiser. "They didn't know what was going to happen. We don't know. We don't know if he's actually going to do it, so they could've died at any moment.

The threat was issued during a tense period before the ceasefire. S. Drone operating over international waters. Setareh said the April post left her physically immobilized. "I was scared. I felt like I couldn't think," she said. "I felt this sense of terror take over my body.

I thought about how, like, my family's there. I wouldn't know what would've happened to them. Just all these innocent people, the culture, just, they could all just be destroyed. I couldn't even think.

President Trump wrote on social media: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.