After mutual attacks: Trump threatens Iran again

Iran war

After mutual attacks: Trump threatens Iran again

The US President sees the Iranian armed forces on the ground and is threatening the country once again. Tehran missed the chance for a deal – and now has to pay the price for it. But which one?

After mutual attacks, US President Donald Trump has threatened Iran again. “It took them too long to negotiate a deal that was great for them, now they have to face the consequences!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform in the afternoon, referring to the negotiations on a framework agreement between the two countries that have been dragging on for weeks. Exactly what consequences Trump meant remained unclear.

At the same time, he once again declared Iran’s military largely defeated. The Iranian armed forces are “a mess,” he wrote. Large parts of it, such as the navy and air force, no longer existed. “They have been completely defeated,” Trump continued, “the tyrant of the Middle East is DEAD!!!”. Days ago, in an interview with NBC News, the US President estimated that Iran still had a good fifth of its missile arsenal. That’s still a lot of missiles, but not what they had at the beginning, Trump added.

Trump also emphasized on Truth Social that Iran is severely weakened economically. The US blockade of Iranian ports is extremely effective and acts like a “STEEL WALL,” the president wrote. The Islamic Republic could no longer do any business or finance its bills or its military.

In response to the de facto blockade of the strait by Iran, the USA itself imposed a blockade of Iranian ports in order to weaken the country, which relies economically on oil trade. The USA has been trying for a long time – so far in vain – to make the Strait of Hormuz freely navigable again. Global energy prices shot up when the war began, putting pressure on the Trump administration.

The USA and Iran attacked each other again on Wednesday night despite a ceasefire and ongoing negotiations to end the war in the Gulf region. In response to the downing of a US helicopter, the military in Iran bombed air defense systems, ground control stations and radar systems in the Strait of Hormuz area, the Centcom regional command announced on X. According to Iranian media, Tehran then attacked US bases in the Gulf region and in Jordan, including with ballistic missiles. Kuwait’s air defense was deployed, according to the army. Sirens were ringing again in Bahrain.