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Trump warns US will ‘knock out’ Iran’s power plants and bridges next week — unless regime makes a deal
NY Post ^ | July 14, 2026 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 07/14/2026 5:43:49 PM PDT by McGruff

President Trump on Tuesday warned the US will pummel Iran until “I say it’s enough” and that “energy targets” are next in his ramped-up war effort.

“I’ll save the energy targets for last, but ultimately we’ll hit energy targets,” Trump told Fox News reporter Trey Yingst in an interview on the stepped-up military operation.

“We’re going to hit them very hard tonight. We’re going to hit them very hard tomorrow night. We’re going to hit them very hard the night after, and then next week it gets really bad for them because next week comes the power plants,” Trump said.

“Next week comes the bridges. We’re going to knock out all their power plants. We’re going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Iran; News/Current Events; War
KEYWORDS: iranmarshallplan; mcmullah

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1 posted on 07/14/2026 5:43:49 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

They need to knock out the regime.

Maybe that’s not easy but it’s the only solution.


2 posted on 07/14/2026 5:51:05 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: McGruff

How many times are we going to do this?


3 posted on 07/14/2026 5:51:23 PM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: McGruff
Independent surveys and leaked government polls indicate that between 70% and 88% of the Iranian population opposes the current regime and wishes to transition away from the Islamic Republic. LINK

Taking out power plants and bridges sounds more like a war on that population, who mainly live in cities, than a war on the actual enemy, who mainly live in hundreds of subterranean bases scattered througout the 350,000 square miles of Iran's mountainous region.

4 posted on 07/14/2026 5:59:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel über alles.)
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To: McGruff

It’s deja vu all over again.

Iran doesn’t honor “deals”. When will DJT learn……


5 posted on 07/14/2026 6:09:07 PM PDT by wny
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To: McGruff

Trump and allies should set up a program where the Strait must remain open and the cost of ANY AND ALL damages* inflicted upon shipping by Iran will be 100% covered by IRANIAN IMPOUNDED FUNDS. This would stiffen the spines of the shipping insurers and reinsurers. And IRANIANS UNDERSTAND MONEY, do not want to lose it and will punish (i.e., kill) those who cause the loss. And the ones causing the loss are the IRGC.

I’m posting this in every thread where the absence of such MONETARY DAMAGES ASSESSMENT is partially responsible for the situation.

And, yes, we could both bomb Iran (and/or take other actions) and do this at the same time.

* “ALL damages” INCLUDES the cost of cargo, the cost to repair/replace the ship, the “opportunity cost” (revenues/profits the ship could have made during the time the ship is out of action), losses suffered by the crew members (and.or their families) who are injured or killed


6 posted on 07/14/2026 6:14:47 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAXq)
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Can’t wait to hear how we “bombed the hell out of them” again 🙄


7 posted on 07/14/2026 6:16:31 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: TonyM

I so agree with you!

We are tired of playing this game, Iran can play it with some other countries OR OUR COUNTRY needs to quit being so nice and wipe them off the face of the earth.

I know we are to love one another, but we have to look at the whole picture....47 years...really.

Lets end this now and take care of the Save America Act!!!


8 posted on 07/14/2026 6:17:19 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (President Trump will ALWAYS be MY President of the United States of America!!!)
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To: McGruff

You can’t deal with mussies ...


9 posted on 07/14/2026 6:22:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: McGruff

Oh Goodie!

Another Deal.


10 posted on 07/14/2026 6:25:18 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (It's not what the media reports; it's what they don't report that's important)
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To: McGruff

He has said this before except with a 24 hour warning.


11 posted on 07/14/2026 6:27:03 PM PDT by fso301
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To: McGruff

He threatened this a few months back also.


12 posted on 07/14/2026 6:44:33 PM PDT by montag813
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To: McGruff

Yeah but lets hope Trump doesnt do what he unfortunately usually does and changes his mind. Trump needs to stop saying it and DO IT, KILL THEM ALL, and by all I mean the regime, every single freakin last one of them


13 posted on 07/14/2026 6:58:20 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: McGruff

This regime doesn’t make deals. Either end them like we should have done in the 80s or go play golf.


14 posted on 07/14/2026 6:59:05 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: McGruff
.... Iran loves Trumps "Deals" ..... Cuz it gives them a great opportunity to make Trump .... And thus ... America .... Look like a Grand Fool on the World Stage ....

...... Yup they are lapping this stuff up ....

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15 posted on 07/14/2026 6:59:37 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hopefully it’s just the power plants near the coast


16 posted on 07/14/2026 7:08:30 PM PDT by 11th_VA ("I got him before he got me.“ - President Trump)
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To: McGruff

How many times has he said this now?


17 posted on 07/14/2026 7:25:05 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: wny

Blah. Blah blah Trump keeps yapping but already blew his chance to end them. His pause so early on was a mistake. I imagine his advisors told him so but his desire to be man of peace and win a Nobel was too strong.

He has a few weeks left to close this out or Dems will be impeaching him, maybe successfully removing him, next spring.


18 posted on 07/14/2026 7:30:31 PM PDT by CircleCityHamburgerMan (Death to demons)
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To: McGruff

Don’t talk about what you’re gonna do-—just do it, and let the Iranian survivors deal with the shock of what just happened.


19 posted on 07/14/2026 7:33:31 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: McGruff

Nobody, and I mean nobody believes him.


20 posted on 07/14/2026 7:55:19 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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