{"id":66847,"date":"2026-02-20T11:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/trump-says-he-is-considering-a-limited-military-strike-to-pressure-iran-into-nuclear-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:55:06","slug":"trump-says-he-is-considering-a-limited-military-strike-to-pressure-iran-into-nuclear-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/trump-says-he-is-considering-a-limited-military-strike-to-pressure-iran-into-nuclear-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he is &#8216;considering&#8217; a limited military strike to pressure Iran into nuclear deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a> said Friday he is &#8220;considering&#8221; a limited military strike on Iran to pressure its leaders into a deal over its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess I can say, I am considering that,&#8221; Trump said at a breakfast with governors at the White House, after being asked by a reporter, &#8220;Are you considering a limited military strike to pressure Iran into a deal?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The president on Thursday suggested the window for a breakthrough is narrowing, indicating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/conflicts\/iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Iran has no more<\/u><\/a> than &#8220;10, 15 days, pretty much maximum&#8221; to reach an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re either going to get a deal, or it\u2019s going to be unfortunate for them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/only-map-you-need-see-understand-how-serious-trump-about-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>THE ONLY MAP YOU NEED TO SEE TO UNDERSTAND HOW SERIOUS TRUMP IS ABOUT IRAN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s remarks come as the U.S. is building up military assets in the Middle East, sending the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group toward the region.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/military\/navy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USS Abraham Lincoln<\/a> and three guided-missile destroyers arrived in the Middle East more than two weeks ago. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-says-iran-has-days-reach-deal-face-unfortunate-outcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP SAYS IRAN HAS 15 DAYS TO REACH A DEAL OR FACE \u2018UNFORTUNATE\u2019 OUTCOME<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, U.S. Central Command posted photos showing F\/A-18 Super Hornets landing on the decks of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, Russia warned Iran and &#8220;all parties in the region to exercise restraint and caution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia continues to develop relations with Iran, and in doing so, we call on our Iranian friends and all parties in the region to exercise restraint and caution, and we urge them to prioritize political and diplomatic means in resolving any problems,&#8221; Kremlin\u00a0spokesman\u00a0Dmitry Peskov said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/russia-urges-restraint-us-builds-up-military-assets-near-iran-2026-02-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>according to Reuters.<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News Digital&#8217;s Emma Bussey and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Friday he is &#8220;considering&#8221; a limited military strike on Iran to pressure its leaders into a deal over its nuclear program. &#8220;I guess I can say, I am considering that,&#8221; Trump said at a breakfast with governors at the White House, after being asked by a reporter, &#8220;Are you considering a &#8230; <a title=\"Trump says he is &#8216;considering&#8217; a limited military strike to pressure Iran into nuclear deal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/trump-says-he-is-considering-a-limited-military-strike-to-pressure-iran-into-nuclear-deal\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump says he is &#8216;considering&#8217; a limited military strike to pressure Iran into nuclear deal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}