{"id":539985,"date":"2026-07-13T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/539985\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:05:08","slug":"donald-trump-says-us-military-will-strike-iran-hard-tonight-after-mou-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/539985\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says US military will strike Iran ‘hard’ tonight after MoU collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US will “hit Iran hard tonight and tomorrow,” US President Donald Trump<\/a> said in a radio interview on the Hugh Hewitt show on Monday evening.<\/p>\n

“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,” he said.<\/p>\n

Shortly after, US CENTCOM<\/a> announced on X\/Twitter that “US Central Command began launching the third consecutive night of strikes against Iran, at the Commander in Chief’s direction.”<\/p>\n

Iranian semi-official news agency, Mehr, has since reported explosions<\/a> in southern Iranian cities of Kish Island, Sirik Island, Qeshm Island, Bushehr, and Bandar Abbas.<\/p>\n

Speaking about Iran’s nuclear power, Trump explained that Pickaxe Mountain, a highly fortified nuclear site one mile south of the Natanz nuclear complex in Iran, “could be the target of a nice, big, fat, shot.”<\/p>\n

He added that Iran “is not doing well with its nuclear situation. Every time we hear about it, we blow it up. But we’ll probably give Pickaxe a shot relatively soon.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Trump also said that “the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was a test, and Tehran didn’t honor it,” adding that current US military action in Iran could last for two to three weeks.<\/p>\n

Despite the escalation, Trump claimed a deal could still be reached, saying “they have been stalling for 47 years, but I still think an agreement is possible.”<\/p>\n

The president said that he “was not interested in answering” a question about whether 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, “Israel would not be around today.”<\/p>\n

This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US will “hit Iran hard tonight and tomorrow,” US President Donald Trump said in a radio interview…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12196,47994,54,42,87,143294,143295,140077,1486,43,40,38,41,39,76279],"class_list":["post-539985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking","tag-centcom","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-and-us","tag-iran-us-conflict","tag-iran-us-news","tag-memorandum-of-understanding","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}