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Trump threatens to ‘finish it up militarily’ if Iran refuses to make a deal

Nypost · · 157 words · By Steven Nelson
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5 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“President Trump said Thursday afternoon that he plans to resume bombing Iran if there’s no peace deal.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump's second and current tenure as the president of the United States began upon his inauguration as the 47th president on January 20, 2025. Trump, a Republican, previously served as the 45th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_presidency_of_Donald_Tr…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran targeting military and government sites and assassinating several Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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““If they don’t want to make a deal, then I’ll finish it up militarily with the other 25% of the targets,” Trump said in the Oval Office.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On May 21, 2025, Donald Trump, the president of the United States and Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, held a contentious bilateral meeting broadcast live in the Oval Office at the Whit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Trump–Ramaphosa_Oval_Offi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On February 28, 2025, U.S. president Donald Trump and U.S. vice president JD Vance held a highly contentious bilateral meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy inside the Oval Office at th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Trump–Zelenskyy_Oval_Offi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran targeting military and government sites and assassinating several Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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“Trump fended off reporters asking him about his original four-week timeframe for the war, which has now lasted 55 days.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Frederick Crist Trump Jr. (October 14, 1938 – September 26, 1981) was an American airplane pilot and maintenance worker. The eldest son of real-estate businessman Fred Trump Sr., he fell out of his f…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump_Jr.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Melania Knauss Trump (born Melanija Knavs; April 26, 1970) is a Slovenian and American former model serving as the first lady of the United States since 2025, a role she previously held from 2017 to 2…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_Trump
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump assumed office as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, 2025. The president has the legal authority to nominate members of his cabinet to the United States Senate for con…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_cabinet_of_Donald_Trump
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““I did say I thought it would take four to six weeks, and I was right, because at the end of six weeks, at the end of four weeks, their military was decimated,” Trump said.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Last week, Trump claimed that Iran’s navy was “laying at the bottom of the sea, completely obliterated,” with the exception of a fleet of “fast attack ships” that the U.S. military did not consider a …
https://newrepublic.com/post/209397/donald-trump-claims-dest…
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web search NEUTRAL — Trump claims Iran will need "15 to 20 years" to rebuild after US-Israeli strikes decimated its military. Asserting the goal of "no nuclear weapon" is attained, he noted the conflict could end in "two …
https://aninews.in/news/world/us/15-to-20-years-to-rebuild-t…
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web search NEUTRAL — Until then, Trump promised, the US will be "blasting Iran into oblivion, or as they say, back to the Stone Ages". According to a White House official, the speech will mostly focus on military successe…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74vqd8k3g1o
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““By the way, they’re delaying it because they, we don’t know who to deal with… They know who the leader is in this country. We don’t know who the leader is in Iran.””
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran targeting military and government sites and assassinating several Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 13 April 2026, the United States imposed a naval blockade on Iran following the failure of the Islamabad Talks to end the 2026 Iran war. The US military said the blockade had begun on Monday, 13 Ap…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_naval_block…
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