{"id":287062,"date":"2026-07-28T10:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=287062"},"modified":"2026-07-28T12:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:39:06","slug":"you-cant-bribe-them-youve-got-to-beat-them-trump-on-iran-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/287062\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You can’t bribe \u200bthem. You’ve got to beat them\u2019: Trump on Iran talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

US President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States was having “good ‌talks” with Iran and there was a chance of a deal over their conflict, but he warned that US strikes would resume if the negotiations failed to deliver, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

At a campaign rally in Michigan later on Monday, Trump said of Iran: “You can’t bribe ​them. You’ve got to beat them, and we’ll beat the hell out of them. But we’ll see how it turns out. Right now, there are very friendly negotiations ⁠going on.”<\/p>\n

Iran’s central military command later on Monday accused the US of threatening vessels and oil tankers ​in its territorial waters and of “attempting to implement an illegal maritime blockade”, which it said “constitutes an escalation of the conflict in the region.”<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia said it shot down drones aimed at petroleum targets, including in Riyadh. It said they had been launched from Iraq by Iran-backed armed groups, and it reserved the right to respond.<\/p>\n

Separately, the Houthis said they had targeted the East-West Pipeline carrying oil to Saudi Arabia’s main Red Sea port of Yanbu in retaliation for Saudi drone incursions.<\/p>\n

A Reuters\/Ipsos poll conducted over the weekend showed Trump’s approval rating ticking higher to 37%, up three points from last month when it tied ‌the lowest of ⁠his presidency.<\/p>\n

However, just one in three Americans support the war against Iran, the lowest Reuters\/Ipsos reading since the conflict’s early days, with most saying Trump has failed to explain his goals.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States was having “good ‌talks” with Iran and there was a chance of a deal over their conflict, but he warned that US strikes would resume if the negotiations failed to deliver, Reuters writes. At a campaign rally in Michigan later on Monday, Trump said of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":262054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,96,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287063,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287062\/revisions\/287063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}