{"id":619251,"date":"2026-09-17T20:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/619251\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T20:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:16:13","slug":"donald-trump-says-he-faces-decision-whether-to-annihilate-iranian-regime-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/619251\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says he faces decision whether to &#8216;annihilate&#8217; Iranian regime or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump told Axios on Thursday that he faces a &#8220;big decision&#8221; on whether to significantly escalate military action against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-908998\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;I have a big decision coming up,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Do I want to go in and annihilate them, or do I not? It&#8217;s a big decision. Anything could happen with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump also discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-908842\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his upcoming meeting<\/a> with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman on Tuesday, saying he wants to &#8220;find out where they are and how they are doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;We have been very protective of them,&#8221; said Trump.<\/p>\n<p>He further told Axios that &#8220;not one ship&#8221; has reached Iran since the start of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-908410\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, noting that the US is in direct contact with the regime, which he claimed still wants to make a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-908544\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming visit to New York<\/a>, Trump told Axios that he &#8220;may&#8221; meet with the Likud leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump told Axios on Thursday that he faces a &#8220;big decision&#8221; on whether to significantly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,54,83420,42,87,79845,43,114994,3336,40,38,41,39,2621,1032],"class_list":["post-619251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gulf-states","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-islamic-regime","tag-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-nations-general-assembly","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619251","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=619251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}