{"id":42071,"date":"2026-02-28T03:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42071"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:04:27","slug":"trump-says-force-remains-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42071","title":{"rendered":"Trump says force remains option"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>US President Donald Trump warned on Friday that military force against Iran remained an option, declaring \u201csometimes you have to\u201d use it, even as he said he preferred to strike a deal with Tehran over its nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters as he left the White House for Texas, Trump said he was dissatisfied with Iran\u2019s stance and accused it of refusing to renounce nuclear weapons ambitions. \u201cWe want no nuclear weapons by Iran and they\u2019re not saying those golden words,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump spoke a day\u00a0after talks in Geneva between US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Iranian officials ended without agreement. Trump confirmed that further discussions on Iran would take\u00a0place later in the day, without specifying participants.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump warned on Friday that military force against Iran remained an option, declaring \u201csometimes you have to\u201d use it, even as he said he preferred to strike a deal with Tehran over its nuclear programme. Speaking to reporters as he left the White House for Texas, Trump said he was dissatisfied with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42071","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=42071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}