President Trump IS trying desperately to end a fight with Iran that is NOT gonna gonna his way it seems….
The Iranian military seem steadfast locked in assuming CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz….
They are NOT intimidated by the armada of Hegseth in the area…..
Trump continues to talk to the civilians in Iran who seem to have NO control over the military there….
This continues to be a stalemate…..
Trump’s threats play in the US and World Media as just words the Iran military…..
While Trump does NOT like to acknowledge his countries Intelligence Community?
They HAVE concluded that Iran is going to continue to string the American President along with the hope that he’ll get tired and like in Afghanistan ?
He’ll just pack up and LEAVE……
NY Times….
The United States said it attacked military sites in Iran on Thursday in retaliation for “unprovoked Iranian attacks,” amid a tenuous month-old cease-fire and officials’ statements that the two countries were discussing a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the American blockade on Iranian ports.
U.S. Central Command said in a statement that Iranian missiles, drones and small boats had attacked three American destroyers in the strait, but that U.S. forces had “eliminated inbound threats.” The statement said that, in response, the U.S. military had “targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U.S. forces including missile and drone launch sites; command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes.”
The Iranian military accused the United States of violating the cease-fire a day earlier by firing on an Iranian oil tanker that was heading toward the Strait of Hormuz. It said it had “retaliated by attacking U.S. military vessels” in the region.
President Trump confirmed in a social media post that the United States and Iran traded fire in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, saying that three “world class American destroyers,” had moved out of the strait “under fire” but were not damaged. He added that the U.S. military had “easily knocked down” missiles shot at U.S. boats and that drones “were incinerated while in the air.”
“They dropped ever so beautifully down to the Ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave!” he said. He also called Iran’s leaders “LUNATICS” and threatened more strikes “if they don’t get their Deal signed, FAST!”
The back-and-forth came as explosions shook Iran’s Qeshm Island and the city of Bandar Abbas, shipping centers on the Strait of Hormuz, as well as the country’s capital, Tehran, according to Iranian news media and citizens posting on social media. Iran’s armed forces said that the United States and “its supporting countries” were responsible and that the strikes had come after exchanges of fire between U.S. and Iranian vessels in or near the Persian Gulf.
The escalating attacks raised the threat that the cease-fire, already strained by attacks on ships and on the United Arab Emirates, could break down completely. A spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps wrote on social media that “the United States has violated the cease-fire.”
Hours before Iran’s accusations, three Iranian officials said that the two countries were debating a one-page proposal for the United States to lift its blockade on Iranian ships and ports, for Iran to open the strait to unimpeded commercial traffic and to end the fighting for 30 days while negotiators try to reach a comprehensive peace settlement. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations. U.S. officials did not respond to requests for comment.
The key stumbling block to an initial agreement is what to do about Iran’s nuclear enrichment program and its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, the Iranians said.
Business leaders, consumers, politicians, shipping companies and many others around the world were watching closely for signs of a breakthrough. The conflict, which has dragged on into a third month and has prompted Iran and the United States to put in place dueling blockades around the Strait of Hormuz, has choked off the major oil transit route, wreaking havoc on global supply chains and causing energy prices to spike.
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Lebanon: The Israeli military said on Thursday that it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in a strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs a day earlier, the first attack near the Lebanese capital since a U.S.-mediated cease-fire took effect last month. The attack risked further destabilizing the already tenuous truce. Read more ›
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Donald Trump also said an agreement with Tehran on ending the war “might not happen, but it could happen any day”.
“I believe they want the deal more than I do,” he told reporters in Washington DC.
Trump reiterated the ceasefire was still in effect.
Yeah, it is. They trifled with us today. We blew them away. They trifled. I call that a trifle.
Trump says truce with Iran still ‘in effect’
Donald Trump has said the ceasefire with Iran is still in place despite today’s exchanges of fire in the strait of Hormuz.
“The ceasefire is going – it’s in effect,” the president told US ABC News.
In relation to the US strikes on Iranian forces, he said: “It’s just a love tap.”
As reported earlier, the US military’s Central Command said it carried out “defensive strikes” on Iranian assets after “unprovoked Iranian attacks” on three US destroyers in the strait.
Iran’s top joint military command accused the US of violating the ceasefire by targeting two ships in the waterway and attacking civilian areas.
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ISW….Iran Update Special Report, May 7, 2026
- US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on May 7 that US forces “eliminated inbound threats” and struck Iranian military facilities responsible for attacks on US forces after Iran targeted US naval assets in and around the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM stated that the United States “does not seek escalation.”
- The United States and Iran remain divided over key issues, particularly issues related to Iran’s nuclear program and Iranian efforts to assert sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s highly enriched uranium (HEU) stockpile and enrichment activities are some of the main obstacles to a deal.
- Iran is increasingly attempting to formalize recognition of its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz in a way that would fundamentally remake regional and global maritime norms in a manner extremely detrimental to US interests.
- Iranian regime media highlighted a meeting between Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian, likely to display unity amid reports of divisions within the regime. Pezeshkian reportedly sought an emergency meeting with Mojtaba to ask him to stop the IRGC’s attacks on the UAE and to prevent their reoccurrence. The fact that Iranian media and Mojtaba’s office have not provided details about what Mojtaba and Pezeshkian discussed suggests that Pezeshkian did not convince Mojtaba to alter the regime’s current policies.
The analysis by the U.S. intelligence community, whose secret assessments on Iran have often been more sober than the administration’s public statements, also found that Tehran retains significant ballistic missile capabilities despite weeks of intense U.S. and Israeli bombardment, three of the people familiar with it said.
Iran retains about 75 percent of its prewar inventories of mobile launchers and about 70 percent of its prewar stockpiles of missiles, a U.S. official said. The official said there is evidence that the regime has been able to recover and reopen almost all of its underground storage facilities, repair some damaged missiles and even assemble some new missiles that were nearly complete when the war began.
Trump painted a rosier picture in Oval Office remarks on Wednesday, saying of Iran: “Their missiles are mostly decimated, they have probably 18, 19 percent, but not a lot by comparison to what they had.”
Three current and one former U.S. official confirmed the outlines of the intelligence analysis, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter….
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One of the U.S. officials who spoke to The Washington Post said they thought Iran’s capacity to endure prolonged economic hardship is far greater than even the CIA estimate. “The leadership has gotten more radical, determined and increasingly confident they can outlast U.S. political will and sustain domestic repression to check any resistance” inside Iran, the official said. “Comparatively, you see similar regimes lasting years under sustained embargoes and airpower-only wars.”….
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