{"id":217063,"date":"2026-07-14T16:10:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/donald-trump-says-us-military-will-strike-iran-hard-the-jerusalem-post\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:10:01","slug":"donald-trump-says-us-military-will-strike-iran-hard-the-jerusalem-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/donald-trump-says-us-military-will-strike-iran-hard-the-jerusalem-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says US military will strike Iran &#039;hard&#039; &#8211; The Jerusalem Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has &quot;completed the latest wave of strikes against Iran&quot; early Tuesday morning, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced in a post on X\/Twitter.<br \/>&quot;During the five-hour mission, CENTCOM forces employed precision munitions against Iranian coastal defense systems, missile and drone sites, and maritime capabilities,&quot; the post said.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/centcom\">CENTCOM<\/a> confirmed strikes in Bushehr, Chah Bahar, Jask, Konarak, Abu Musa, and Bandar Abbas, areas in which Iranian media had reported explosions.\u00a0<br \/>&quot;More than 50,000 US service members are currently deployed across the Middle East. American forces remain vigilant, lethal, and ready,&quot; the post said.<br \/>On Monday evening, US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">President Donald Trump<\/a> had vowed that the US would &#8220;hit Iran hard tonight and tomorrow,&#8221; in a radio interview on the Hugh Hewitt show.<br \/>&quot;We\u2019re going to hit them very hard tonight, and we\u2019re going to hit them hard tomorrow. And there\u2019s not a damn thing they can do about it. They have nothing,&quot; he said.<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><br \/>Shortly after Trump&#8217;s interview, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-902407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">CENTCOM<\/a> announced on X that &#8220;US Central Command began launching the third consecutive night of strikes against Iran, at the Commander in Chief&#8217;s direction.&#8221;<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><br \/>Several areas in southwestern Iranian city of Omidiyeh were hit by US projectiles, Iranian semi-official<em> Mehr News<\/em> reported, adding that explosions had been heard in numerous areas around Iran.\u00a0<br \/>Speaking about Iran&#x27;s nuclear power, Trump explained that Pickaxe Mountain, a highly fortified nuclear site one mile south of the Natanz nuclear complex in Iran, &quot;could be the target of a nice, big, fat, shot.&quot;<br \/>He added that Iran &quot;is not doing well with its nuclear situation. Every time we hear about it, we blow it up. But we&#x27;ll probably give Pickaxe a shot relatively soon.&quot;<br \/>Pickaxe Mountain is a heavily fortified site that hosts two deeply buried tunnel complexes that experts assess as beyond the reach of the most powerful bunker-buster bombs in the US arsenal.<br \/>Trump also said that &quot;the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was a test, and Tehran didn&#x27;t honor it,&quot; adding that current US military action in Iran could last for two to three weeks.<br \/>Despite the escalation, Trump claimed a deal could still be reached, saying &quot;they have been stalling for 47 years, but I still think an agreement is possible.&quot;<br \/>The president said that he &#8220;was not interested in answering&#8221; a question about whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-902283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">Israel<\/a> will intervene in the strikes tonight. He added that he has a good relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and stated that without the US, &#8220;Israel would not be around today.&#8221;<br \/><em>Reuters contributed to this report.<\/em><br \/>Copyright \u00a92026 Jpost Inc. All rights reserved<br \/>\u2022<br \/>\u2022<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiakFVX3lxTFBTZGhzUVRWUXZ3LVBnWHlZMEhlVTVPUmlzNDJVOTg3dWFucXcxMDhmT1hvSTBIRXZjdDFPdnMtWXZZRjF1YkIxaWhxNy14Z2xXYnJPTFA4TkR1UEZ5bmt3dGNrRm9vNGMxZFE?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has &quot;completed the latest wave of strikes against Iran&quot; early Tuesday morning, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced in a post on X\/Twitter.&quot;During the five-hour mission, CENTCOM forces employed precision munitions against Iranian coastal defense systems, missile and drone sites, and maritime capabilities,&quot; the post said.CENTCOM confirmed strikes in Bushehr, Chah Bahar, Jask, Konarak, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}