{"id":945587,"date":"2026-05-08T07:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945587\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:36:23","slug":"iran-us-war-live-trump-says-ceasefire-still-in-place-despite-trading-hormuz-strikes-with-tehran-lunatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945587\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran-US war live: Trump says ceasefire still in place despite trading Hormuz strikes with Tehran \u2018lunatics\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump threatens to knock out Iran &#8216;more violently&#8217; without peace deal<\/p>\n<p>US president <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/trump-panel-fema-cuts-emergency-b2972582.html\">Donald Trump <\/a>has threatened to knock out Iran \u201cmore violently\u201d if a peace deal is not signed following attacks on US ships in the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/world\/europe\/tehran-donald-trump-pakistan-marco-rubio-strait-of-hormuz-b2972430.html\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The US military announced Thursday it intercepted \u201cunprovoked Iranian attacks\u201d in the key oil waterway.<\/p>\n<p>Trump later boasted about how the US Navy guided-missile destroyers were able to fight off the Iranian attack, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116535672760322109\">writing <\/a>on Truth Social, \u201cDrones came, and were incinerated while in the air. They dropped ever so beautifully down to the Ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president warned, \u201cJust like we knocked them out again today, we\u2019ll knock them out a lot harder, and a lot more violently, in the future, if they don\u2019t get their Deal signed, FAST!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shweta Sharma8 May 2026 04:28<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#post-2363620\" class=\"sc-1wyow5i-1 earWyi\"><\/a>Watch: Trump says ceasefire still on after Iran &#8216;trifled with us&#8217;Trump says ceasefire still on after Iran &#8216;trifled with us&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Shweta Sharma8 May 2026 04:27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#post-2363618\" class=\"sc-1wyow5i-1 earWyi\"><\/a> Briefing: What we know on the 70th day of the US-Israel war on Iran<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US president Donald Trump brands Iran\u2019s leadership \u201clunatics\u201d after three US destroyers come under attack in the Strait of Hormuz in one of the most serious confrontations since the fragile ceasefire began <\/li>\n<li>US military says missiles, drones and small boats targeted warships during their transit through the strait, though all attacks were intercepted and none of the destroyers were hit <\/li>\n<li>Washington later carry out retaliatory strikes on what it described as Iranian military facilities responsible for the assault, including launch sites and command centres <\/li>\n<li>Iran, however, described the incident as an \u201cexchange of fire\u201d between Iranian armed forces and the \u201cenemy\u201d even as Trump said the ceasefire was holding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shweta Sharma8 May 2026 04:19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to knock out Iran &#8216;more violently&#8217; without peace deal US president Donald Trump has threatened to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-945587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116537811707375113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}