{"id":253095,"date":"2026-08-17T17:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/253095\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T17:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:29:22","slug":"trump-says-iran-should-surrender-threatens-to-bomb-oman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/253095\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran should surrender, threatens to bomb Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story audio is generated using AI<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran should surrender to end a war with the US as talks between the countries remained stalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey should put up the white flag of surrender,\u201d Trump told a Fox News reporter during a phone interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An interim deal agreed to in June declared an \u201cimmediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts\u201d, but quickly unravelled, with Trump saying it was \u201cover\u201d on July 7 and Iran\u2019s foreign ministry declaring it \u201csuspended\u201d a week later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Under that memorandum of understanding, Iran and the US committed to negotiating a final deal \u2014 covering broader issues such as the fate of Iran\u2019s nuclear programme \u2014 in a maximum of 60 days, extendable by mutual consent. Monday marks 60 days since the MOU was signed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Separately, Oman and Iran have been in talks to try to reach an agreement to restore commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, which carried 20% of the world\u2019s oil and liquefied natural gas supplies before the US-Israeli attacks on Iran began in late February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIf Oman gets in the way, we\u2019ll bomb the shit out of them,\u201d Trump told Fox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The dispute over control of the Strait of Hormuz has driven up fuel prices and put pressure on Trump to end a war that is unpopular at home ahead of the November midterm elections that will decide \u200ccontrol of the US Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump told Fox News that the midterms were not affecting his strategy on Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMidterms have nothing to do with my thinking,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier on Monday, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform: \u201cThe number one Goal is, and always will be, that Iran cannot have, in any way, shape, or form, a Nuclear Weapon,\u201d repeating one of his stated rationales for the war.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In a recent statement to Fox News, President Donald Trump warned that the US would bomb Oman if it interferes with the US blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. <\/p>\n<p>Tyler Kendall reports <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LqKg481aal\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/LqKg481aal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OnL9kxrLRx\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/OnL9kxrLRx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BloombergTV\/status\/2089352903936864547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 17, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Reuters<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Story audio is generated using AI US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran should surrender to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[70009,70011,34,2828,4151,15686,42956,53595,9456,70014,14912,70012,70015,70008,70013,224,70007,70010],"class_list":["post-253095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-fuel-price-increase","tag-fuel-prices-strait-of-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-iran-nuclear-program","tag-iran-nuclear-weapons","tag-iran-us-talks","tag-oman-iran-negotiations","tag-oman-iran-talks","tag-strait-of-hormuz-tensions","tag-trump-bomb-oman-threat","tag-trump-foreign-policy","tag-trump-fox-news-interview","tag-trump-iran-surrender","tag-trump-midterm-elections","tag-trump-threatens-oman","tag-us-iran-war","tag-us-middle-east-conflict","tag-us-midterm-elections-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117112036954084743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}