{"id":1867,"date":"2026-07-08T20:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:30:03","slug":"trump-warns-fresh-attacks-on-iran-could-come-wednesday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"Trump warns fresh attacks on Iran could come Wednesday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.politico.com\/11\/ed\/b201295045e88ba0ed790aa842a9\/turkey-nato-summit-trump-92773.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ANKARA, Turkey \u2014 The U.S. plans to bomb Iran again as soon as Wednesday night and could attempt to take Kharg Island, President Donald Trump earlier in the day at the close of the annual NATO leaders\u2019 summit.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian leaders &#8220;are behaving very badly, as they have for 47 years, and we hit them hard last night,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI&#8217;ll give him a little warning. We&#8217;re going to hit them hard tonight, but we&#8217;ll see how it all works out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that the U.S. already hit some targets Tuesday on Iran\u2019s Kharg Island, the nation\u2019s primary oil export hub, though Pentagon statements have made no mention of it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s remarks \u2014 made shortly after he said the ceasefire with Iran was \u201cover\u201d in his eyes \u2014 mark the most concrete sign of a full resumption of military operations after getting fed up with roundabout talks.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon struck Iranian military sites during the night in response to Tehran\u2019s attacks on ships attempting to move through in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>His comments were a head-snapping reversal from the president, who only a day prior had indicated Iran\u2019s leaders had become more reasonable before calling them \u201ccuckoo\u201d on Wednesday. Trump hinted the U.S. could wrap up the war without a peace deal because \u201cit\u2019s easier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s not a thing they can do about it, but I said, don&#8217;t hit the pipes, just hit everything else, and they hit it,\u201d he said, referring to oil pipes in Kharg Island. \u201cThey may hit it again tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also on the table: resuming a blockade on Iranian ships in the strait, a critical waterway for some 20 percent of the world\u2019s oil.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s bluster comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-says-iran-ceasefire-is-over\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iran launched a series of strikes<\/a> on commercial ships in the corridor.<\/p>\n<p>Even with his threats to increase attacks, Trump gave the White House\u2019s main Iranian interlocutors \u2014 Vice President JD Vance, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner \u2014 permission to continue peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy whole life is deals. I don\u2019t see it, I don\u2019t see it with them,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThere may be a big attack and it will knock out a lot of stuff. We don\u2019t knock out nothing, we knock out a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump repeatedly expressed palpable frustration that Tehran had not been negotiating in good faith in talks that have rotated venues between Switzerland and Pakistan since March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve made a lot of progress, and they&#8217;ll get out of the room,\u201d he said, \u201cWe&#8217;ll talk about it like we hear, they&#8217;ll agree on everything, and then they&#8217;ll go and have a news conference and say we never even talked about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump expressed confidence that the U.S. economy could handle renewed hostilities with Iran in a later press conference, telling reporters, \u201cif we hit Iran, oil goes up a little bit, it&#8217;s alright. You know what we\u2019re doing, we\u2019re de-nukeing it. 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