{"id":3950,"date":"2026-05-04T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:37:00","slug":"donald-trump-iran-will-be-wiped-off-the-face-of-the-earth-if-it-strikes-us-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3950","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump: Iran will be wiped off the face of the earth if it strikes US ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">In a warning of unprecedented sharpness, <b>Donald Trump<\/b> has made it clear that the <b>US<\/b> will respond with all-out military force to any <b>Iranian<\/b> threat.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\"><b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">The <b>American<\/b> president sent a message of absolute ferocity<\/b> to Tehran, escalating his rhetoric to the highest level since the beginning of the <b>Columbia crisis<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">In an interview with the Fox News network, <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"214\">Donald Trump<\/b> made clear that any <b>hostile action<\/b> against the <b>ships<\/b> involved in Operation <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"323\">&#8220;Project Freedom&#8221;<\/b> will bring about the final end of the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Specifically, the US president warned that <b>Iran &#8220;will be wiped off the face of the earth.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">The statement comes in response to the ongoing blockade of the <b data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"67\">Hormuz Strait<\/b> by Iranian forces. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">Trump described the <b>tanker escort mission as<\/b> &#8220;<b>humanitarian<\/b>&#8221; and asserted that any attempt to obstruct it would be met with <b data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"274\">maximum military force<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">The mood is already belligerent, as according to <b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"65\">CENTCOM<\/b> chief Admiral Bradley Cooper, the US military <b data-path-to-node=\"8,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"23\">&#8220;blew up&#8221; six Iranian vessels<\/b> after a challenge in the <b>Sea of Hormuz<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a warning of unprecedented sharpness, Donald Trump made clear that the US will respond with all-out military force to any Iranian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}