{"id":641727,"date":"2026-10-10T00:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/641727\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T00:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:34:15","slug":"donald-trump-reverses-stance-on-iran-strikes-ahead-of-us-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/641727\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump reverses stance on Iran strikes ahead of US midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump<\/a> signaled on Friday that he is not ruling out renewed military action against Iran before the midterm elections, less than a day after categorically saying that the United States would not strike Tehran before Americans go to the polls.<\/p>\n

Asked outside the White House why military action<\/a> against Iran was tied to the midterms and why the US was not acting now, Trump replied: “We may. I mean, we’ll see.”<\/p>\n

The remark marked a notable shift in tone from Trump’s statement a day earlier, when he said the United States “will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections.”<\/p>\n

Trump went on to again portray Iran as being in severe distress following the conflict.<\/p>\n

“Their country is failing badly. Their military is defeated. They have no navy. They have no air force,” Trump said. He also claimed that inflation in Iran had reached 300%, adding that the country was “in very bad shape.”<\/p>\n

The president also addressed the newly announced energy agreement<\/a> with Russia, under which Moscow is expected to supply large quantities of diesel fuel to the US and global markets.<\/p>\n

“I think you heard about the oil deal with Russia. That is a big deal,” Trump said. “That is massive amounts of oil coming into our country, and I want to thank President Putin.”<\/p>\n

Trump clarified that the shipments would include diesel, saying: “It’s diesel, which is what we want.” He argued that the additional supply would help drive energy prices lower.<\/p>\n

Trump also spoke about the planned execution<\/a> of Nidal Hasan, the gunman responsible for the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood.<\/p>\n

Trump said Hasan would be executed by firing squad and defended the use of the death penalty in the case.<\/p>\n

“He killed 13, 14 people, badly wounded 20-some-odd people, and he’s totally nuts,” Trump said. “So I really don’t care how he goes, as long as he goes. And I think that the death penalty is a very worthy way of going for him.”<\/p>\n

Asked whether he had approved plans for the execution to be livestreamed, Trump said that he had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump signaled on Friday that he is not ruling out renewed military action against Iran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4717,4160,99984,54,19121,42,87,93,1486,26742,43,59892,5839,1593,40,38,41,39,76279,228558],"class_list":["post-641727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-airstrike","tag-attack","tag-diesel","tag-donald-trump","tag-execution","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-nuclear-deal","tag-memorandum-of-understanding","tag-midterm-elections","tag-news","tag-nuclear-deal","tag-oil","tag-russia","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-iran","tag-us-iran-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641727","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=641727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}