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Trump vows to hit Iran ‘extremely hard’ as Tehran denies talks

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The US president has again vowed to bomb Iran’s power plants and oil facilities unless a deal is reached.

US President Donald Trump has once again threatened strikes on Iran’s power plants and oil infrastructure unless his demands are met. In his first address to the nation since the US and Israel began their war on Iran, Trump said the US was “very close” to achieving its military goals. “We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks,” he added.

As the war entered its 33rd day, new missile strikes were reported in Iran, Israel, and the Gulf states, including Kuwait, where a US naval base was reportedly targeted.

Meanwhile, Trump has claimed that Iran’s president wanted a ceasefire, which Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has refuted. “No ceasefire proposal has been made by Iran. The five-point plan allegedly proposed by Iran is media speculation,” Araghchi said, as cited by IRIB. The war will continue until “the aggressor” is punished and full compensation is paid to Iran, he added.

Recent polling shows Trump’s approval rating slipping below 40%, with disapproval climbing above the mid-50s as voters sour on both the war and its economic fallout.

Support for the Iran campaign itself is deeply underwater, with the majority opposing the offensive and independents turning sharply against it.



Trump urged countries that rely on oil from the Middle East to buy it from the US instead or to unblock the Strait of Hormuz by force.

Trump claimed that regime change was never a war goal, but argued that it had effectively occurred after the US killed several top Iranian officials, including longtime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and security chief Ali Larijani.

In an open letter to the American people, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian described the strikes on US bases in the region as “a measured response grounded in legitimate self-defense,” and argued that the US had entered the war as “a proxy for Israel.”

At least 1,318 people have been killed and 3,935 injured in the Israeli invasion and attacks on Lebanon since March 2, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

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14 COMMENTS

  1. Trump has painted himself into a corner. There is quite literally no good outcome(s) from this, save perhaps walking away and blaming Israel which is probably the least damaging of the damaging outcomes.

  2. Trump has well and truly lost the war but keeps lying to everyone hoping to shore up his presidency.

    The markets know – oil prices climbed up and sharemarkets fell after Trump’s speech https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c36r5p1l7w3t?page=6

    Several equity markets plunged https://openthemagazine.com/business/sensex-drops-1500-points-nifty-slips-below-22300-amid-war-jitters

    Chechen troops offer to back Iran https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/iran-us-israel-war-who-are-chechen-fighters-pro-russian-units-offer-to-back-iran-if-us-deploys-troops-middle-east-conflict-11294728

    Russian nuclear subs in Strait of Hormuz https://x.com/iranin_arabic_/status/2039342656711729430

  3. Go hard Trump you don’t need approval you have a term and no one can take that away. Silly people do not understand what is at stake. And we are not that bothered about petrol we live in a tiny island that is pretty boring so not much to drive to!

    • Oh dear, MSM-itis? Its not just oil dear, its things like fertilizer that grow the crops you eat. BTW how do you think food gets to super markets? Trucks that use fuel. Hey maybe you can grow a few spuds in the back yard and cook them over an open fire.

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