{"id":681769,"date":"2026-07-09T05:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681769\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:50:09","slug":"us-and-iran-launch-strikes-for-second-day-as-tehran-says-breaking-promises-no-longer-cost-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681769\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Iran launch strikes for second day as Tehran says &#8216;breaking promises no longer cost-free&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We&#8217;re gonna hit them hard again tonight&#8217; &#8211; what Trump said earlierpublished at 21:54 BST 8 July<\/p>\n<p>21:54 BST 8 July<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump at the Nato summit earlier today\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/23c07abe-b88b-46ef-921c-429f1c0466e9.jpg.webp\"  width=\"2857\" height=\"1607\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump said earlier today that the US would &#8220;probably&#8221; strike Iran &#8220;very hard&#8221; again tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We hit them very hard last night, very, very hard,&#8221; Trump said, adding the US would &#8220;probably hit them hard again tonight&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump added: &#8220;I gave them a little warning, we&#8217;re gonna hit them hard again tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier in the day, when asked whether the ceasefire is over and the memorandum of understanding the two countries agreed last month was also over, Trump said: &#8220;To me, I think it&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to deal with them anymore, they&#8217;re scum. You know what scum is? They&#8217;re scum. They&#8217;re sick people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked if talks would resume, Trump said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t care, they can talk. But I think they&#8217;re wasting their time. They&#8217;re a bunch of lying guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;We&#8217;re gonna hit them hard again tonight&#8217; &#8211; what Trump said earlierpublished at 21:54 BST 8 July 21:54&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-681769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}