Trump Tells Fox He’ll Bomb Iran If No Deal

Trump tells – President Donald Trump told Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst that if Iran doesn’t sign a peace agreement with the U.S., the U.S. will attack—language he used in the Situation Room conversation as the administration carries out a fast-moving seq

President Donald Trump didn’t talk like a man waiting for another diplomatic round. In a phone call with Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst, made from the White House Situation Room Wednesday night, Trump described what he planned to do if Iran didn’t agree to a peace deal.

The words were blunt enough to cut through the carefully scripted language of negotiations: “We’ll bomb the s**t out of them.”

That threat has since been followed by action. Yingst said Trump told him the U.S. launched 49 Tomahawk missiles in an attack the president described as “violent and vicious.” Trump also said—according to Yingst—that “Top Iranian officials called him directly, asking him to stop the bombing.”

This is the third time in a week that the U.S. and Iran have traded back-and-forth strikes. The Associated Press reported that the Wednesday night attack lasted into Thursday morning and was “more intense and wider than the day before.” Tehran. the outlet said. released little information on the extent of the damage but said the Strait of Hormuz is still closed.

The fast pace of the exchanges is happening far beyond any single battlefield. In the Middle East, Israel and the U.S. launched a joint attack on Iran in February, and Israel has continued bombing neighboring countries ever since. Debris in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre followed Israeli airstrikes on June 8.

In his on-air account, Yingst described the atmosphere of his conversation with the president as something closer to coercion than bargaining. “When we step back here, the president is now negotiating with bombs,” he said on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning.

Yingst added that Trump told him. “if they are unwilling to sign an agreement. we’ll bomb the shit out of them tonight.” He said the sense he got was that the U.S. “understands who they’re dealing with. ” and that Vice President Vance—leading the negotiations—“really laid out exactly who the Iranians are.” Yingst said Vance has “a firm grasp on the games they’re trying to play at the negotiating table.”.

Yingst said Trump is “fed up,” and that he isn’t going to “stand for it” any longer. In that telling, the missile strikes were meant to change Iran’s behavior quickly—an attempt to “put new pressure on the Iranian regime.”

The message didn’t come as a one-time warning. Yingst said the U.S. “do expect more strikes to continue if the Iranians do not sign on the dotted line.”

Standing in the middle of all this is the hard, immediate reality that diplomacy is being paired with force. Each new statement of intent—delivered directly from the White House Situation Room—maps onto the administration’s escalating tempo. with the Strait of Hormuz singled out by Tehran as still closed and the scope of the latest U.S. attack described as broader and more intense than the previous day.

With negotiations being led by Vice President Vance and the president making the terms sound like a deadline, the question now isn’t whether the U.S. is willing to strike—it is how quickly Iran responds before the next round begins.

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