{"id":554526,"date":"2026-07-22T19:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/554526\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T19:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:25:11","slug":"us-to-strike-iran-for-every-attack-on-ships-in-strait-of-hormuz-donald-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/554526\/","title":{"rendered":"US to strike Iran for every attack on ships in Strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US will strike Iranian bridges and power plants<\/a> in retaliation for every time Iran fires on a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, US President Donald Trump<\/a> threatened in a Wednesday Truth Social post.<\/p>\n

“The US will bomb<\/a> and destroy one bridge or power plant, including those located next to, or in, the capital city of Tehran,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

This will happen “from this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz,” he stated.<\/p>\n

This will be regardless of whether Iran fired a “missile, rocket, drone, or any other device or weapon,” the president said.<\/p>\n

Trump’s comments came while en route to Dover Air Force Base, Maryland, to receive the four US soldiers who were killed by Iran while posted to Jordan.<\/p>\n

“We cannot, we must not, allow Iran to have nuclear weapons. They will not have nuclear weapons,” Trump said before departing for Dover AFB.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re going to pay our respects to them, and that\u2019s one of the hardest things for me to do. As a person who serves as president, it\u2019s one of the hardest things, but it has to be done,” he said of the responsibility to receive the soldiers’ remains.<\/p>\n

A reporter at the scene asked Trump how the soldiers were killed, querying about a report that Iran targeted the soldiers’ quarters on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t know. But they\u2019re going to pay a very heavy price. They\u2019re being hit hard. They\u2019re being destroyed,” Trump responded.<\/p>\n

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi addressed Trump’s comments, saying that any attack by the United States against Iranian infrastructure will be answered with attacks against any country that aided the US.<\/p>\n

“Our defense doctrine is clear: eye for an eye,” he said. \u00a0“Those who contribute to such aggression, whatever the kind of support, will also be considered as legitimate targets.”<\/p>\n

CENTCOM: Nine ships redirected, one disabled<\/p>\n

US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in an X post later on Wednesday that it had successfully redirected nine ships in the Strait of Hormuz and disabled one vessel as part of US military efforts to ensure blockade compliance.<\/p>\n

Rubio: There are consequences for not keeping commitments<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/a> commented on recent strikes on Iran, saying that “the US remains open and willing to engage in positive, constructive negotiations and talks so long as the commitments that are made are kept.”<\/p>\n

However, “when those commitments are not kept, which is what’s happened in this particular case, then there will be consequences,” he stated.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Rubio was asked at a news conference to respond to comments made by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said Israel has “no interest in joining the conflict between Iran and the US.”<\/p>\n

“I can\u2019t comment on what some one individual in government said in Israel,” said Rubio. “I can just generally tell you that, by and large, we think that a nuclear-armed Iran is an unacceptable thing. It can\u2019t happen. And that\u2019s what they were going to do, if they hid behind this conventional shield that they were building.”<\/p>\n

“Within two years, Iran could say: We\u2019re breaking out to a nuclear weapon; you can\u2019t do anything about it, or we\u2019re going to overwhelm you with tens of thousands of drones and missiles, which they were on pace to build,” Rubio added. “They can\u2019t do that now.”<\/p>\n

Regarding the Strait of Hormuz, Rubio described Iran’s targeting of civilian ships in the international waterway as “unacceptable.”<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re not going to allow that to be the status quo,” he said. “But ultimately, there are other countries that should feel just as strongly as we do, because they\u2019re actually more impacted by it than we are.”<\/p>\n

Miller: Trump is only president with courage, foresight to take on Iran challenge<\/p>\n

Additionally, Homeland Security Advisor and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said that “Trump is the only American president who has had the courage, and the foresight, and the willingness to take this threat head on” during a Tuesday interview on Fox News.<\/p>\n

“The results have been very clear: the regime has been eviscerated militarily, financially, politically\u2014in every possible way,” Miller added.<\/p>\n

“That offramp’s there, any time they want it, to make a deal and to honor and abide by that deal. But if they think they can cross America and get away with it, they and everyone watching around the world, has learned a very clear lesson about America and President Trump,” he added.<\/p>\n

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Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US will strike Iranian bridges and power plants in retaliation for every time Iran fires on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4717,47994,54,16606,42,87,11982,43,157282,1464,114994,40,38,41,39,137365,48717,128708],"class_list":["post-554526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-airstrike","tag-centcom","tag-donald-trump","tag-drone","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-missiles","tag-news","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-rockets","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-air-force","tag-us-military","tag-will-us-attack-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554526","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=554526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}