{"id":6611,"date":"2026-05-20T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=6611"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:54:00","slug":"donald-trump-on-iran-either-they-sign-a-deal-or-we-finish-them-off-almost-everything-was-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=6611","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump on Iran: Either they sign a deal or we finish them off &#8211; Almost everything was destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>Donald Trump<\/b> has come back with new statements about <b>Iran<\/b>, claiming that the country&#8217;s military capabilities have been all but neutralized.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to reporters, <b>American<\/b> president reiterated that &#8220;<b>their navy has been destroyed, their air force has been destroyed, almost everything is gone<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the key question now is <b>whether the United States &#8220;will go ahead and end it&#8221; or whether Iran will choose to sign a deal<\/b>. &#8220;We&#8217;ll see what happens,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>We hit them very hard. We may have to hit them even harder, but we may not<\/b>,&#8221; he said, speaking at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>We will not let Iran get nuclear weapons<\/b>. That&#8217;s it. It&#8217;s very simple. They want so badly to make a deal, we&#8217;ll see what happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Earlier, Trump had said he was in no hurry to reach a peace deal<\/b> with Tehran, while stressing the importance of developments in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would have to open the Strait of Hormuz and that would happen immediately. That is why <b>we will give this process a chance<\/b>,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The US president also added that it is better &#8220;to see a few dead instead of many,&#8221; but added: &#8220;<b>We can do it both ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During his remarks, he also referred to <b>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/b>, saying that &#8220;<b>he will do what I want<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>He&#8217;s a wartime prime minister and I just don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s going to be treated well<\/b>,&#8221; Trump added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has come back with new statements on Iran, claiming that the country&#8217;s military capabilities have almost &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6611","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\/6611","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=6611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}