{"id":612463,"date":"2026-09-11T04:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/612463\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T04:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:36:09","slug":"trump-says-he-has-no-regrets-about-starting-the-iran-war-as-u-s-dials-up-economic-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/612463\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he has no regrets about starting the Iran war as U.S. dials up economic pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump speaks on the first day of the 2026 Republican National Convention at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, Sept. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n

Alex Wong | Getty Images<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump said he has no regrets about starting the Iran war and added that “If I had it to do again, I would do exactly what I did.”<\/p>\n

Speaking to Fox News<\/a> presenter Laura Ingraham on Thursday stateside, Trump said that he would have attacked Iran despite the impact on the midterm elections. <\/p>\n

“If we hadn’t done Iran, you would be cruising to midterms victory right now,” Ingraham told Trump, to which Trump replied “supposing we were cruising, and all of a sudden Iran has a nuclear weapon. They would use it.”<\/p>\n

He added that if Iran had a nuclear weapon, the Islamic Republic would “wipe out” Israel and the Middle East, and start hitting U.S. cities. <\/p>\n

His comments come as markets brace for a longer Iran war,<\/a> after a Wall Street Journal report revealed that top White House advisors had discussed with Trump\u00a0the possibility that the Iran war could drag on beyond his current term. <\/p>\n

Trump has said that the war will end immediately after the midterm elections and oil and gas prices will also fall<\/a>, adding on to his months-long claims that the conflict will end soon.<\/p>\n

In separate comments to NewsNation<\/a> on Thursday, Trump denied reports that there was any damage to U.S. assets, after Iran claimed it had damaged multiple U.S. fighter aircraft at a base in Jordan. <\/p>\n

“No damage. No nothing,” Trump said, when asked if there was any truth to the reports. <\/p>\n

Economic pressure<\/p>\n

Washington is continuing efforts to isolate Iran from its economic network, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent flagging sanctions against “a large bank” next week. <\/p>\n

“We’re going to do it on Monday because we want to honor the memory of our fallen citizens on 9\/11. But watch this space on Monday.”<\/p>\n

Bessent said that the administration has sanctioned and closed the Dubai branches of the second largest bank in Egypt, claiming that the bank had given the Iran $1.8 billion dollars. The “largest Turkish bank” that had been giving to the Iranians was also sanctioned, although Bessent did not specify which bank were these. <\/p>\n

Trump, in the NewsNation interview, was also asked how Iran could continue holding out under the current economic pressure. <\/p>\n

“I don’t know that they’re gonna be able to hold out,” Trump said. “But it’ll get settled after the elections. Or maybe sooner. But it’ll get settled right after the election.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump speaks on the first day of the 2026 Republican National Convention at the American Airlines…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[218458,271776,38306,6419,357,12845,6420,54,2973,36206,42,30937,87,20889,277271,9552,43,16755,238,114994,40,38,41,39,2488,1032,12131,120553,2201,30938],"class_list":["post-612463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-lco26x","tag-lco27g","tag-blockades","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-business-news","tag-catastrophe","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-policy","tag-government-and-politics","tag-headlines","tag-ice-brent-crude-oct25","tag-iran","tag-iran-government","tag-laura-ingraham","tag-national-security","tag-news","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-politics","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trump-administration","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-government","tag-united-states-military","tag-war","tag-wti-crude-sep25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612463","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=612463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}