{"id":21707,"date":"2026-03-16T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/2026\/03\/16\/trump-says-us-would-have-struck-iran-even-if-he-knew-tehran-would-strike-gulf-states-in-response\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:51:00","slug":"trump-says-us-would-have-struck-iran-even-if-he-knew-tehran-would-strike-gulf-states-in-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/2026\/03\/16\/trump-says-us-would-have-struck-iran-even-if-he-knew-tehran-would-strike-gulf-states-in-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US would have struck Iran even if he knew Tehran would strike Gulf states in response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/umang.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Trump-says-US-would-have-struck-Iran-even-if-he.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">US President Donald Trump said:<strong> <\/strong>Even if Washington had known that Iran would attack the Gulf countries in retaliation, the United States would still have waged war against Tehran.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">&quot;&#8216;Gosh, I should have known?&#8217; It&#8217;s not the same question. And it would be a big deal if we knew. I mean, we have to do what we have to do,\u201d Trump said at a White House event.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Noting that several Gulf countries are under attack by Iran, he added: &quot;Saudi Arabia, suddenly Kuwait is under attack. Kuwait is under attack. Bahrain is under attack. All these countries are under attack.&#8221; \u201cThere was no expert who said that would happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">U.S. President Donald Trump also said the war with Iran will not end this week, saying, \u201cIt will end soon,\u201d and \u201cIt won\u2019t take very long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">\u201cWhen this is all said and done, we will have a much safer world,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI am personally reluctant, but I feel we have an obligation to act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">He characterized the campaign as a necessity rather than a war of choice, arguing that if the United States had not attacked Iran, nuclear war would have broken out and escalated into World War III.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">These comments reflect the government&#8217;s shifting and often contradictory messages over the war years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source Link : https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/article\/5d055084d110<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said: Even if Washington had known that Iran would attack the Gulf countries in retaliation, the United States would still have waged war against Tehran. &quot;&#8216;Gosh, I should have known?&#8217; It&#8217;s not the same question. And it would be a big deal if we knew. I mean, we have to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}