{"id":2488,"date":"2026-07-23T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:55:13","slug":"trump-close-to-decision-on-massive-attack-on-iran-axios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/trump-close-to-decision-on-massive-attack-on-iran-axios\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump \u201eclose\u201c to decision on \u201emassive attack\u201c on Iran &#8211; Axios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Trump told Axios on Thursday that he&#8217;s seriously considering restarting major combat operations in Iran &#8211; including strikes that would be bigger than the ones carried out during Operation Epic Fury, Report informs.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief interview, Trump acknowledged that such a decision would have consequences and stressed he hasn&#8217;t made a determination yet.<\/p>\n<p>Trump didn&#8217;t give a deadline for his decision. Two other US officials confirmed no call has been made and no new orders have been given to the military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eI am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it,&#8221; the US president said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Israel &#8220;would join in two minutes if I ask them to,&#8221; but added that \u201ewe don&#8217;t need anybody&#8221; to launch a new operation against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said the Iranians \u201ewant to negotiate&#8221; but are not ready to make a deal at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Trump told Axios on Thursday that he&#8217;s seriously considering restarting major combat operations in Iran &#8211; including strikes that would be bigger than the ones carried out during Operation Epic Fury, Report informs. In a brief interview, Trump acknowledged that such a decision would have consequences and stressed he hasn&#8217;t made a determination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}