{"id":52442,"date":"2026-01-11T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=52442"},"modified":"2026-01-12T02:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:57:54","slug":"trump-says-us-military-considering-strong-options-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=52442","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US military considering \u2018strong options\u2019 on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">President Trump said Sunday the U.S. military is considering \u201cstrong options\u201d on Iran as the country\u2019s regime cracks down on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/ap\/ap-international\/ap-death-toll-in-2-week-old-protests-challenging-irans-theocracy-reaches-116-activists-say\/\"><u>growing nationwide protests<\/u><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When asked on Air Force One whether Iran is crossing a red line, the president told reporters \u201cthey\u2019re starting to, it looks like.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThere seemed to be some people killed that aren\u2019t supposed to be killed,\u201d Trump said. \u201cBut we\u2019re looking at it very seriously. The military is looking at it and we\u2019re looking at some strong options and we\u2019re going to making a determination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump said that he is receiving \u201can hourly briefing\u201d on the situation regarding protesters in the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The president also revealed that Iranian leaders called him on Saturday wanting to negotiate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI think they\u2019re tired of being beat up by the United States,\u201d Trump said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIran wants to negotiate, yes. We may meet with them, I mean a meeting is being set up,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut we may have to act, because of what\u2019s happening, before the meeting. But a meeting is being set up, Iran called they want to negotiate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Protests challenging Iran\u2019s theocracy have gained traction in recent weeks while the country\u2019s leadership has sought to crack down on the demonstrations. Activists estimate that 538 people have died related to the protests, while 10,600 others have been detained, according to the U.S.-based Human Right Activists News Agency. The exact numbers are difficult to gauge because the internet is down in the country and phone lines are cut off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The president said that he was going to speak with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/elon-musk\/\"><u>Elon Musk\u2002<\/u><\/a>about potentially using the Space-X operated satellite constellation to help Iranians who have been hindered by the internet blackout.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump has warned that the U.S. would be prepared to intervene if Iran kills any protesters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIf Iran [shoots] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go,\u201d Trump said earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5684015-iran-protests-trump-response\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump said Sunday the U.S. military is considering \u201cstrong options\u201d on Iran as the country\u2019s regime cracks down on&nbsp;growing nationwide protests.&nbsp; When asked on Air Force One whether Iran is crossing a red line, the president told reporters \u201cthey\u2019re starting to, it looks like.\u201d&nbsp; \u201cThere seemed to be some people killed that aren\u2019t supposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":52443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[1615,1156,1230],"class_list":["post-52442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-iran","tag-military","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52444,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52442\/revisions\/52444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}