June 11, 2026
President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States would hit Iran "very hard tonight" and wanted at some point to take Iran's oil infrastructure hub Kharg Island, after strikes by both sides in the Gulf undermined a shaky ceasefire.
Iranian sources and Western officials said indirect US-Iranian talks on a preliminary peace deal had intensified. But a worsening of hostilities this week has undermined prospects for a swift end to more than three months of war.
Trump's Warning
Trump threatened new strikes on Iran after the two sides traded air attacks on Thursday for the second successive day.
