Trump Threatens To ‘Blow Up’ the ‘Whole Country’ of Iran if Deal Not Reached

 

The president said there will be 'NO MORE MR. NICE GUY'

by Dave DeCamp | April 19, 2026 at 1:01 pm ET | Iran

President Trump has threatened to “blow up” the “whole country” of Iran if Tehran doesn’t agree to a deal that he is demanding it sign, as the very fragile ceasefire appears to be on the verge of collapsing.

Trump made the comments in an interview with Fox News reporter Trey Yingst. “I just spoke with President Trump for about 20 minutes, and he told me: ‘If Iran does not sign this deal, the whole country is getting blown up.’ He went on to say that bridges and power plants will be targeted if Iran does not sign this agreement,” Yingst said.

The threat from Trump came after Iran said it re-closed the Strait of Hormuz after briefly declaring it was open to all commercial vessels. The Iranian government said that the waterway was again closed due to the fact that the US was maintaining its blockade on Iranian ports, a violation of the ceasefire agreement.

President Trump at the White House on April 13, 2026 (White House photo)

After Iran said the strait was again closed, Iranian military vessels reportedly fired on two ships, something President Trump referenced in a post on Truth Social on Sunday, where he also threatened Iran with major attacks on its power plants and bridges.

“We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy and, if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years. IT’S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END!” the president wrote.

In the same post, Trump said that his “representatives” were going to Pakistan for negotiations with Iran, referring to US envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. In another interview on Sunday, Trump said Vice President JD Vance would not attend the negotiations due to “security concerns.”

Iranian media reported on Sunday that there’s been no decision in Tehran to send negotiators to Islamabad and that there wouldn’t be “as long as there is a blockade.” Iranian officials have also denied claims from President Trump that Tehran agreed to allow the US to take Iran’s uranium that’s enriched at the 60% level.

“Iran’s enriched uranium is not going to be transferred anywhere. Transferring uranium to the United States has not been an option for us,” said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei.

The ceasefire between the US and Iran will expire on Wednesday, April 22, unless a deal is reached or the two sides agree to an extension.

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Trump Says US Took Control of Iranian Cargo Ship After US Navy Destroyer ‘Blew a Hole’ in Its Engine Room

 

 The president said that US Marines now 'have custody' of the vessel

by Dave DeCamp | April 19, 2026 at 3:59 pm ET | Iran

Updated on April 19 at 5:38 pm EST

President Trump said on Sunday that a US warship “blew a hole” in the engine room of an Iranian cargo ship that attempted to get past the US naval blockade of Iranian ports and claimed that US Marines now “have custody” of the vessel.

“Today, an Iranian-flagged cargo ship named TOUSKA, nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to get past our Naval Blockade, and it did not go well for them. The US Navy Guided Missile Destroyer USS SPRUANCE intercepted the TOUSKA in the Gulf of Oman, and gave them fair warning to stop,” the president wrote on Truth Social.

Footage released by CENTCOM of the USS Spruance firing on the Touska

“The Iranian crew refused to listen, so our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engineroom. Right now, US Marines have custody of the vessel. The TOUSKA is under US Treasury Sanctions because of their prior history of illegal activity. We have full custody of the ship, and are seeing what’s on board!” Trump added.

US Central Command later released a video of the USS Spruance firing on the Iranian ship. CENTCOM said its forces intercepted the Touska while it was in the Arabian Sea on its way to Bandar Abbas, Iran.

“After Touska’s crew failed to comply with repeated warnings over a six-hour period, Spruance directed the vessel to evacuate its engine room. Spruance disabled Touska’s propulsion by firing several rounds from the destroyer’s 5-inch MK 45 Gun into Touska’s engine room. US Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit later boarded the non-compliant vessel, which remains in US custody,” CENTCOM said.

Earlier in the day, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported that the “IRGC Navy rapid reaction forces responded to the shooting at an Iranian commercial ship by American terrorist forces around the Sea of Oman and forced the Americans to retreat and flee.” It’s unclear whether the Mehr report refers to the same incident, since it didn’t name the Iranian vessel.

The incident comes after Iran announced it was reopening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic following the declaration of a ceasefire in Lebanon, but Tehran quickly reversed the move because the US maintained its blockade of Iranian ports. Iran views the blockade as a violation of the ceasefire since a blockade is an act of war.

President Trump has been threatening major strikes on Iran if Tehran doesn’t agree to US demands for a deal, saying on Sunday that if there’s no agreement, the “whole country is getting blown up.”

https://news.antiwar.com/2026/04/19/trump-says-us-took-control-of-iranian-cargo-ship-after-us-navy-destroyer-blew-a-hole-in-its-engine-room/

Your claim that Israel has "legal title" to the whole of the land between the river and the sea is not supported by the historical documents.

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Your claim that Israel has "legal title" to the whole of the land between the river and the sea is not supported by the historical documents. Neither the Mandate nor the Balfour Agreement promised the Jewish people a sovereign state, and nor did either of these documents grant Jewish people exclusive rights to the whole of the land between the river and the sea. The British "white paper" of 1922 explicitly ruled out a Jewish sovereign state encompassing the whole of Palestine: "Unauthorized statements have been made to the effect that the purpose in view is to create a wholly Jewish Palestine. Phrases have been used such as that Palestine is to become "as Jewish as England is English." His Majesty's Government regard any such expectation as impracticable and have no such aim in view. Nor have they at any time contemplated, as appears to be feared by the Arab delegation, the disappearance or the subordination of the Arabic population, language, or culture in Palestine. They would draw attention to the fact that the terms of the Declaration referred to do not contemplate that Palestine as a whole should be converted into a Jewish National Home, but that such a Home should be founded `in Palestine'." https://avalon.law.yale.edu/21st_century/brwh1922.asp Britain was the Mandatory power authorised by the League of Nations. Britain relinquished the Mandate to the United Nations in 1947. At that time there was no plan or proposal to create a Jewish sovereign state in Palestine. The only existing plan was the 1939 White Paper, which proposed a single multi-faith, multi-ethnic State of Palestine. The 1947 UNGA resolution to partition the land has no legal force. But even if it did, it could not possibly give legal title to Israel over the areas it allocated to the "Arab state". Reading the actual documents and understanding the context in which they were written helps.

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Israel’s legal title to the Land is ironclad under international law - and it was permanently reaffirmed on this day in 1946. On April 18, 1946, the League of Nations dissolved itself & transferred its “sacred trust” to the United Nations: the Mandate for Palestine. That

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