{"id":77256,"date":"2026-05-07T02:09:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/06\/donald-trump-iran-war-deal-us-bombing"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:03:56","slug":"trump-tells-iran-to-accept-deal-or-face-new-wave-of-us-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77256","title":{"rendered":"US fires on Iranian-flagged oil tanker as Trump gives Tehran fresh ultimatum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President tells Iran to accept deal to end war or face new wave of bombing at \u2018much higher level and intensity\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/may\/06\/trump-iran-hormuz-us-project-freedom-live-updates-middle-east-crisis\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US military fired on an Iranian-flagged oil tanker on Wednesday, shortly after Donald Trump issued a fresh ultimatum to Tehran, telling it to accept a deal to end the war or face a new wave of US bombing \u201cat a much higher level and intensity than it was before\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The US fighter fired several rounds and \u201cdisabled the tanker\u2019s rudder\u201d as it attempted to breach the US\u2019s blockade of Iranian ports, US Central Command said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/06\/donald-trump-iran-war-deal-us-bombing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President tells Iran to accept deal to end war or face new wave of bombing at \u2018much higher level and intensity\u2019Middle East crisis \u2013 live updatesThe US military fired on an Iranian-flagged oil tanker on Wednesday, shortly after Donald Trump issued a fre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,448,212,60,3511,554,47,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-strait-of-hormuz","category-trump-administration","category-us-news","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77263,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77256\/revisions\/77263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}