“Now we’ll make a decision: Do we want to go further and just certify it, by certifying it meaning it will never happen again?” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I would rather not destroy the rest of the country, if possible, but maybe I’ll have to. And you’ll know soon enough.”
The threat came after the US president and Vice President JD Vance said that the war was a major factor in the midterm results, but Trump has continued to defend his decision to launch the war. Reuters cited two unnamed sources on Thursday who told the outlet that the president is still planning to restart the bombing campaign against Iran despite the acknowledgment.
People set fire to a banner depicting US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US Vice President JD Vance and US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, on a street in Tehran, Iran, November 4, 2026 (West Asia News Agency via Reuters)
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“He is planning to bomb Iran. Don’t listen to what he’s saying. He held off because of the midterms. We asked him to hold off until the midterms,” one of the sources said.
In the meantime, Iran continues to strike tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claiming on Thursday that three more “intruding vessels” have “exploded” in the waterway. The UK’s Maritime Trade Operations said at least five ships have been struck since Sunday, but it recently said it was difficult to ascertain the true number of attacks because many ships refused to report them.
Reuters also reported on Thursday that Tehran sent a nuclear proposal to Washington through Qatari mediators, but said it would only discuss it after the US meets Iran’s seven conditions, which has been its position all along. Those conditions include ending the US blockade of Iran, providing sanctions relief, and releasing frozen Iranian funds.
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Very Close to a Nuclear Strike on Iran: We Can Save Ourselves
Forty-two years after this brilliant movie first gave people in the UK and beyond just a glimpse of the unfathomable consequences of nuclear war, watching the opening scenes is even more grim than it has been in the intervening decades, given just how eerily similar they seem to be to our current moment. With the US and Israel continuing to wage war on Iran, and their respective leaders having been repudiated in public polls and elections, the prospect of nuclear weapon use and a wider nuclear war is seemingly more real than ever before. But unlike in the 1980s, when the general public was well aware of what was at stake, having been frightened by Ronald Reagan’s saber-rattling and educated about the dangers of nuclear weapons throughout the Cold War, including through cultural interventions like popular films, today, when President Trump repeatedly threatens to annihilate Iran, the media and the general public seem to shrug and move on to other news of the day, checking perhaps on what Kim Kardashian had for breakfast.
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Nuclear attack on Pickaxe Mountain a ‘sound and light show’
By Al Mayadeen English | Nov 4, 2026
War within days or a US exit? Iran stays on full alert, Hormuz stays shut until the MOU is implemented, and nuclear threats are dismissed.
Reports that the US could use a nuclear weapon on Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain site have no basis, and the attack Washington has actually floated would be a staged show with no destructive effect, according to former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter.
Professor Mohammad Marandi also doubts the US would use such a weapon, and says Iran’s forces remain on full alert for a possible return to war within days, with the Strait of Hormuz shut until the MOU is implemented. Ritter, for his part, sees Washington searching for a way out.
Read more at: defenddemocracy.press
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