{"id":62394,"date":"2025-12-30T21:44:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/iran-vows-harsh-response-to-any-attack-as-trump-says-hed-knock-the-hell-out-of-them-if-nuclear-work-resumes\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:44:26","slug":"iran-vows-harsh-response-to-any-attack-as-trump-says-hed-knock-the-hell-out-of-them-if-nuclear-work-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/iran-vows-harsh-response-to-any-attack-as-trump-says-hed-knock-the-hell-out-of-them-if-nuclear-work-resumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran vows harsh response to any attack as Trump says he&#8217;d &#8220;knock the hell out of them&#8221; if nuclear work resumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Tehran, Iran<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian promised on Tuesday a harsh response to any attack, appearing to respond to a warning the previous day by President Trump over Iran&#8217;s purported attempts to rebuild its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Answer of Islamic Republic of Iran to any cruel aggression will be harsh and discouraging,&#8221; Pezeshkian said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p> Pezeshkian did not elaborate, but his statement came a day after Mr. Trump suggested the U.S. could carry out new military strikes if Iran attempts to reconstitute its nuclear program. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump made the comment during wide-ranging <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-netanyahu-mar-a-lago-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a><\/span> at the U.S. leader&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Now I hear that Iran is trying to build up again,&#8221; Mr. Trump said during a news conference with Netanyahu after their meeting. &#8220;And if they are, we&#8217;re going to have to knock them down. We&#8217;ll knock them down. We&#8217;ll knock the hell out of them. But hopefully that&#8217;s not happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/29\/018ab4e9-4d64-4310-a341-86075ab9746c\/thumbnail\/620x413\/6273820f38ad49684a157a35d238a85f\/gettyimages-2253959928.jpg#\" alt=\"President Trump Meets With Israeli PM Netanyahu At His Palm Beach Estate \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/29\/018ab4e9-4d64-4310-a341-86075ab9746c\/thumbnail\/620x413\/6273820f38ad49684a157a35d238a85f\/gettyimages-2253959928.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/29\/018ab4e9-4d64-4310-a341-86075ab9746c\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/214dae618c00494c08929f37d6b71e31\/gettyimages-2253959928.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">President Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Lago resort, Dec. 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Joe Raedle\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The two leaders discussed the possibility of renewed military action against Tehran months after a 12-day air war in June that killed nearly 1,100 Iranians, including senior military commanders and scientists. Iran&#8217;s retaliatory missile barrage killed 28 people in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump repeatedly declared &#8220;total obliteration&#8221; of Iran&#8217;s nuclear program after three sites were bombed in a secret attack by the U.S. in June, but <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/senate-democrats-iran-trump-nuclear-sites-obliterated\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">questions were raised<\/a><\/span>\u00a0about the extent of the damage inflicted. An\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-iran-strikes-set-back-nuclear-program-by-months-intel-assessment\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">initial classified assessment<\/a><\/span>\u00a0determined that the strikes had set back Tehran&#8217;s nuclear program by a matter of months, while Mr. Trump said it was set back &#8220;basically decades.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some Democratic lawmakers, after a classified briefing on the strikes, argued that Mr. Trump had misled the American people about the level of success achieved.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump suggested Monday that he could order another U.S. strike against Iran if he believes it&#8217;s needed.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;If it&#8217;s confirmed, they know the consequences, and the consequences will be very powerful, maybe more powerful than the last time,&#8221; Mr. Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump said he had heard Iran was rebuilding its capabilities after his closed-door meeting on Monday with Netanyahu, who has pressed successive U.S. administrations for decades to take a harder line against Iran. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Netanyahu remains focused on reducing threats from Iran to Israel, which he has been for the almost 30 years he&#8217;s been in office,&#8221; CBS News national security contributor Samantha Vinograd, a former top Homeland Security official in the Obama administration, said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>But Vinograd added that &#8220;the United States and Israel may have different intelligence assessments of what Iran&#8217;s intentions are, what their capabilities are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said the U.S. strikes over the summer \u2014 known as Operation Midnight Hammer \u2014 &#8220;did inflict damage to Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities, however Iran does retain highly enriched uranium which could be used to breakout to a bomb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img 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               <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                U.S. Department of Defense<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vinograd said, however, the most immediate threat posed by Iran \u2014 not only to Israel but to U.S. forces in the region \u2014   may well be its massive stockpile of conventional ballistic missiles, not its <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/u-s-intel-assessed-iran-3-to-8-months-from-nuclear-weapon\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">potential to try to build a viable nuclear weapon<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran has had more ballistic missiles than any other nation in the region, other than Israel, and it&#8217;s really their leverage when it comes to wreaking havoc across the region, both against targets in Israel, American troops overseas, via proxies and more.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It does appear that there is some kind of intelligence gap between what the U.S. thinks Iran is doing and capable of, and what Israeli intelligence is saying on those fronts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pezeshkian said Saturday that tension between the two sides had already risen again, claiming: &#8220;We are in a full-scale war with the U.S., Israel and Europe; they don&#8217;t want our country to remain stable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/30\/ffbc9571-7922-4aef-892b-e5f735cd416d\/thumbnail\/620x413g3\/1819d9750c97a5c5d9e5e6ac41cdab8d\/gettyimages-2237397232.jpg#\" alt=\"Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" 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