{"id":6293,"date":"2026-07-15T01:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2026-07-15T01:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:40:30","slug":"trump-bombs-iran-for-fourth-straight-day-resume-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=6293","title":{"rendered":"Trump Bombs Iran for Fourth Straight Day, Resume Blockade"},"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<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<p>U.S. Central Command said American forces launched another round of strikes against Iran at 3:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday, marking the fourth straight day the U.S. has hammered Iran at the direction of President<strong> Donald Trump<\/strong>. Those strikes happened an hour before the U.S. was going to restart its naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>CENTCOM posted about the new strikes on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForces began launching an additional round of strikes against Iran to continue degrading Iranian capabilities used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d the post said. \u201cThe strikes are taking place as American forces prepare to resume the naval blockade against Iranian ports and coastal areas. The blockade goes into effect at 4 p.m. ET.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"ef2e51722d74b8b184b166b6c168d25c\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At 3 p.m. ET today, U.S. Central Command forces began launching an additional round of strikes against Iran to continue degrading Iranian capabilities used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes are taking place as American forces prepare to resume the\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CENTCOM\/status\/2077113071559213498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump had said the U.S. would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/trump-reveals-us-will-hit-iran-hard-over-the-next-two-days-not-a-damn-thing-they-can-do-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continue bombing Iran<\/a> this week during a radio interview on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He told conservative pundit <strong>Hugh Hewitt<\/strong> the military would hit Iran \u201chard\u201d \u2014 and that there was \u201cnot a damn thing they can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"qualified qualified-1\">The president said because Iran violated the fragile ceasefire last weekend by attacking a merchant ship in the Strait of Hormuz, the talks of a long-term peace deal had been scrapped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have nothing \u2014 they have nothing going except they have big mouths,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>He then told Hewitt the U.S. and Iran were on the verge of a peace agreement until Saturday, when Iran attacked a Cyprus-flagged ship in the strait. That spurred the U.S. to strike Iran over the weekend, with those attacks carrying over to Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qualified qualified-2\">\u201cWe had a deal yesterday\u2026 these people are crazy,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe had a deal where we won everything, and they basically break the deal. To them, deals are made to be broken. They are extremely unreliable people, and frankly if they ever had a nuclear weapon they would use it within one day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump on Monday said the U.S. was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-dubs-usa-guardian-of-the-hormuz-strait-and-relaunches-blockade-against-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now the \u201cGUARDIAN\u201d of the strait.<\/a> He floated a plan where America would charge a 20% fee on cargo shipped through the passage, but he walked that back on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States,\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116918941071241802\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> on Truth Social. \u201cThose Investments will be MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News showed a graphic on Tuesday afternoon indicating the U.S. had hit Western Iran near the Persian Gulf, as well as further south near the Strait of Hormuz; American forces also reportedly hit central Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Watch above via Fox News.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Central Command said American forces launched another round of strikes against Iran at 3:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday, marking the fourth straight day the U.S. has hammered Iran at the direction of President Donald Trump. 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