{"id":81709,"date":"2026-05-05T22:59:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=81709"},"modified":"2026-05-05T22:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:59:55","slug":"trump-says-iran-should-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/trump-says-iran-should-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran should \u201cwave the white flag\u201d: \u201cThey want a deal with us\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President <a title=\"Trump says Iran sent a new proposal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/trump-says-iran-sent-a-new-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> continued his hardline remarks on Iran during an event at the White House. Trump claimed Tehran wants to make a deal with the United States and said Iran has no chance of winning the current conflict. He also argued that Iran\u2019s military capabilities had been severely weakened and repeated that Washington would not allow Tehran to acquire nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u201cIran has no chance of winning\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Speaking at the White House, Trump described the current situation as a small-scale conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call this a conflict. Iran has no chance of winning. The Tehran administration knows that as well,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u201cThey need to wave the white flag\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Trump claimed that the US had sunk 159 Iranian military vessels, hit dozens of other air and naval assets and targeted several military facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Arguing that Iran\u2019s combat capability was now extremely limited, Trump said: \u201cYou may not see a white flag, but that is actually what the Iranians need. They need to wave the white flag, the symbol of surrender. Iran wants to make a deal with us, and that will be the right step for Tehran.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Hormuz and financial pressure<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Trump also said Iran was unable to sell oil through the Strait of Hormuz and claimed the country\u2019s financial system was close to collapse.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that this pressure was pushing Tehran toward an agreement with Washington.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u201cThey cannot have nuclear weapons\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Trump repeated that Iran would not be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons, saying such a development would endanger not only the Middle East but the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Iran had nuclear weapons, maybe we would not be here today. Not long ago, Iran was working to obtain nuclear weapons. Now it is working to survive,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LIVE: Trump signs proclamation restoring Presidential Fitness Test Award\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z0zOp-mPGu8\" width=\"951\" height=\"535\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump continued his hardline remarks on Iran during an event at the White House. Trump claimed Tehran wants to make a deal with the United States and said Iran has no chance of winning the current conflict. He also argued that Iran\u2019s military capabilities had been severely weakened and repeated that Washington &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192199,"featured_media":81710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25,37],"tags":[20815,77263,1134,77159,10523,43753,44813,873,1133,1388],"class_list":["post-81709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-america","category-middle-east","tag-conflict","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-oil","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-united-states","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81711,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81709\/revisions\/81711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}