Trump says he could strike Iran again 'without hesitation'

US President Donald Trump has said he is ready to resume military strikes on Iran and would do so 'without hesitation', The Jerusalem Post reported. The newspaper presented the remarks as a threat to renew attacks on the Islamic Republic.

Abu Ali Express, a Hebrew-language news channel on the messaging app Telegram, published excerpts that it said came from two separate interviews Trump gave overnight. The channel described the president as sharpening both his tone and his rhetoric toward Tehran. In its account of the first interview, Trump was asked whether he would hesitate to use military force against Iran. He replied that he would act if he saw events moving in the opposite direction, that he might do so right away, and that he would not hesitate.

What Trump said in the first interview

According to the Hebrew excerpts posted by Abu Ali Express, the interviewer asked whether it would count as a defeat for Trump if the people ruling Iran, whom the question described as lunatics, were still in power when he left office. Trump agreed that it would, and said so emphatically.

He was also asked what would happen to the Iranians if they killed a senior American official. In the channel's rendering, Trump answered that they would not go on existing for much longer. The post contained further numbered points that are cut off in the material available to us, so their content is not reported here.

Israel named in the second interview

In a second post, Abu Ali Express quoted Trump from another interview in which he said he could bring the confrontation with Iran to an end immediately. He said that the countries he wants to protect had asked him to continue for a while longer in a somewhat more restrained way, and that this was why, in his words, the United States was still in this war.

Trump named Israel among those countries and broadened the point to the Middle East as a whole, saying the parties he seeks to protect prefer that he act in the manner he is acting now. That framing presents the current pace of operations as shaped in part by the wishes of allies, including Israel. Israel.com has seen no response from the Israeli government to that characterisation in the reports.

Trump also said he would have gone further than he has so far. He said the United States had already gone a long way and had struck Iran very hard, but had in most cases avoided hitting its bridges. That remark suggests he sees a wider range of targets as available. The excerpt does not say whether he intends to use them.

How the remarks reached readers

The detailed quotations in this report come from Abu Ali Express, which published them in Hebrew. Because the interviews were presumably conducted in English, the wording here is our English summary of a Hebrew rendering, not Trump's exact phrasing. For that reason we have paraphrased rather than quoted him, with the exception of the phrase 'without hesitation', which appears in English in The Jerusalem Post's headline.

The Jerusalem Post report available to us consists of its headline and a Reuters photograph. The caption shows Trump speaking near a seal of the Department of Veterans Affairs at a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on November 11, 2026. The caption identifies the picture only; it does not say the Iran remarks were made at that event.

The two organisations broadly agree on the substance: Trump signalled a willingness to use force against Iran again and said he would not hold back if he chose to. Abu Ali Express adds the detail of two interviews and the specific exchanges described above, none of which is confirmed by the second organisation in the material we have.

What the reports do not say

• Which media outlets conducted the two interviews, and when exactly they were recorded, is not stated.
• Trump's original English wording, beyond 'without hesitation', is not in the material.
• Trump did not specify what developments would amount to things moving in the opposite direction, or what would trigger renewed strikes.
• Apart from Israel, the countries he said asked for a more restrained approach are not named.
• No response from Iran or from the Israeli government is reported.