{"id":1957,"date":"2026-10-01T09:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:04:06","slug":"trump-says-us-may-blow-them-up-or-make-iran-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US may \u2018blow them up\u2019 or make Iran deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Washington faced a choice between further military action against Iran and reaching a deal with Tehran, warning that the confrontation would end \u201cvery soon\u201d one way or the other.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to make that decision: We blow them up or make a deal,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how he could negotiate with Iranian officials he has described as \u201ccrazy\u201d, Trump replied: \u201cMaybe you blow them up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said military force remained an option alongside diplomacy, while also claiming that the United States had \u201ctotal control\u201d of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged that the situation could change if Iran laid a mine in the strategic waterway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe time is coming. It\u2019s gonna end very soon, one way or the other,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Washington faced a choice between further military action against Iran and reaching a deal with Tehran, warning that the confrontation would end \u201cvery soon\u201d one way or the other. \u201cWe have to make that decision: We blow them up or make a deal,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Asked how he could negotiate with Iranian officials he has described as \u201ccrazy\u201d, Trump replied: \u201cMaybe you blow them up.\u201d Trump said military force remained an option alongside diplomacy, while also claiming&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}