{"id":2578171,"date":"2026-03-10T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-promises-to-hit-iran-20-times-harder-if-it-doesnt-comply-with-demands\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:06:30","slug":"trump-promises-to-hit-iran-20-times-harder-if-it-doesnt-comply-with-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-promises-to-hit-iran-20-times-harder-if-it-doesnt-comply-with-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Promises to Hit Iran &#8217;20 Times Harder&#8217; if it Doesn&#8217;t Comply with Demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-promises-to-hit-iran-20-times-harder-if-it-doesnt-comply-with-demands%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2578171&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>tensions over the Strait of Hormuz escalate as Iran warns it will not allow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-irans-environmental-terror-behind-mediterranean-oil-spill\/\" title=\"Israel: ...\u2019s \u2018environmental terror\u2019 behind Mediterranean ... spill\">oil shipments<\/a> to pass, prompting President Donald Trump to warn of harsher attacks if the oil flow is disrupted. Iran had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-lifts-sanctions-on-iranian-officials-and-businesses\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Lifts Sanctions on ...ian Officials and Businesses\">initially vowed<\/a> to block shipping at the strait, and despite Trump\u2019s efforts to persuade ships to proceed, maritime traffic remains subdued. Trump asserted that if Iran takes action to block the strait, it would be hit \u201ctwenty times harder\u201d than before and that targeted blows could prevent Iran from rebuilding as a nation, though he expressed hope that such actions would not occur. He framed open strait traffic as benefiting other nations, including China, while insisting the United States is protecting global energy supplies. Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has stated it will not allow even a single liter of oil to be exported. The Strait of Hormuz is a vital choke point, handling about 20 million barrels of oil per day and a significant share of the world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President ...s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">liquefied natural gas<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>As Iran tries to choke off oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump said that if further action is taken to fulfill that vow, Iran will be subject to more attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Iran said at the start of the war with the U.S. and Israel that it would not allow shipping through the strait, and despite Trump&rsquo;s efforts on Friday to entice ships to pass through, shipping traffic remains low, as noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/10\/trump-free-flow-energy-fails-restart-shipping-strait-hormuz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far,&rdquo; Trump posted Monday evening on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116202054617775180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Additionally, we will take out easily destroyable targets that will make it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back, as a Nation, again &mdash; Death, Fire, and Fury will reign upon them,&rdquo; Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that although his finger is on the trigger, &ldquo;I hope, and pray, that it does not happen!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!container) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=\"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\"; 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Hopefully, it is a gesture that will be greatly appreciated,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">TRUMP&rsquo;S NEW THREAT: President Trump warns Iran faces strikes &lsquo;twenty times harder&rsquo; if it closes the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JEMlASTtfQ\">pic.twitter.com\/JEMlASTtfQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/2031175955025145872?\">March 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Strait of Hormuz, which runs between Iran and Oman, is a vital shipping route that carries about 20 million barrels of oil per day and about one-fifth of the world&rsquo;s liquefied natural gas, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/trump-says-its-honor-keep-strait-hormuz-open-china-other-countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Trump said he was helping other nations by trying to keep the strait open.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re really helping China here and other countries because they get a lot of their energy from the Straits,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;We have a good relationship with China. It&rsquo;s my honor to do it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I mean, we&rsquo;re doing this for the other parts of the world, including countries like China,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;They get a lot of their oil through the straits.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump noted that the U.S. is &ldquo;protecting the world from what these lunatics are trying to do, and very successfully I might add.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Despite Trump&rsquo;s comments, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has said it would &ldquo;not allow&rdquo; the export of &ldquo;a single liter of oil.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Trump touched on the Strait of Hormuz in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-iran-cbs-news-the-war-is-very-complete-strait-hormuz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he was &ldquo;thinking about taking it over&rdquo; and that the United States &ldquo;could do a lot&rdquo; about the trade route.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Iran has &ldquo;shot everything they have to shoot, and they better not try anything cute or it&rsquo;s going to be the end of that country&hellip; If they do anything bad, that would be the end of Iran and you&rsquo;d never hear the name again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Iran had said at the start of the conflict with the U.S. and Israel that it would not permit ships to pass, and despite Trump\u2019s efforts on Friday to persuade vessels to go through, shipping remained restrained, The Guardian noted. In a post, Trump said Iran would be attacked \u201ctwenty times harder\u201d if it interrupted the oil flow, and he threatened to strike easily destroyable targets to prevent Iran from rebuilding as a nation-while stressing that he hoped such action wouldn\u2019t be necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Trump argued that other nations rely on the strait more than the United States does and described keeping it open as a gesture for China and other energy-dependent countries, saying he was \u201chelping\u201d them and that the U.S. is protecting the world from those who would disrupt the route. The Strait of Hormuz-between Iran and Oman-handles about 20 million barrels of oil per day and a significant portion of the world\u2019s liquefied natural gas. Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, meanwhile, has said it will not allow the export of even a single liter of oil. In a CBS interview, Trump said he had thought about taking control of the route and that Washington could do a lot to influence it, warning that if Iran acts badly, \u201cthat would be the end of Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2578172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ben-Working-Feature-Image-2026-03-10T094009.745.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4551,69279,3823,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2578171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations-2","tag-iran","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ben-Working-Feature-Image-2026-03-10T094009.745.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578177,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578171\/revisions\/2578177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2578172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}