{"id":5711,"date":"2026-06-10T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:00:26","slug":"trump-prepares-new-strikes-on-iranian-infrastructure-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/trump-prepares-new-strikes-on-iranian-infrastructure-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Prepares New Strikes on Iranian Infrastructure Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a phone call with Fox News on Wednesday, <strong>Trump<\/strong> stated he is <em>getting close to ordering new strikes against Iranian power plants and bridges<\/em>, according to <em>New York Post<\/em>. The president also criticized Iran for what he described as stalling tactics during ongoing peace negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The escalation comes after an Iranian attack near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday resulted in the loss of an American Apache helicopter. Trump took to Truth Social to issue a stern warning about the consequences of Iran&#8217;s delays in reaching a diplomatic settlement.<\/p>\n<p>In a forceful message posted Wednesday morning, the president declared that Iran had squandered its opportunity for a favorable agreement. <em>New York Post<\/em> reports Trump wrote that the Islamic Republic has &#8220;taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them, now they will have to pay the price.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump also mocked the current state of Iran&#8217;s military capabilities in his social media post, claiming much of the country&#8217;s naval and air force capacity has been eliminated. He characterized the Iranian regime as ineffective and declared its status as a regional power effectively finished.<\/p>\n<p>The United States conducted what officials termed &#8220;self-defense strikes&#8221; against Iranian targets on Tuesday evening in direct response to Monday&#8217;s helicopter incident. Iran retaliated Wednesday morning with drone and missile attacks on American military installations in Bahrain, Jordan, and Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>The pending strikes represent a sharp shift in tone from the president, who as recently as Wednesday had suggested a negotiated settlement with Tehran remained possible within days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump announced plans for strikes on Iranian power plants and bridges after an Apache helicopter was downed, despite earlier suggesting a negotiated settlement remained possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[196,6098,96,3064,280,209],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-5711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-infrastructure-targets","tag-iran","tag-military-strikes","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5804,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions\/5804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=5711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}