Trump reveals details of high-stakes phone call after strikes on Iran as Tehran’s leaders make desperate plea to president

President Donald Trump claimed Iranian officials called him directly after the US launched a new ‘self-defense’ attack on the country on Wednesday.

HE claimed on Fox News He said senior officials in Tehran begged him to stop the US bombing raids, which began at 5:15 p.m. ET.

US Central Command said the attacks were carried out ‘under the instructions of the Commander in Chief’. It was ‘in response to Iran’s unwarranted and ongoing aggression’.

CENTCOM said the ‘sensitive munitions’ hit military surveillance capabilities, communications systems and air defense facilities.

President Donald Trump warned that more attacks could come.

“We’ll bomb the Iranians again tomorrow night if they refuse to sign the proposed deal,” he told Fox, adding that the bombing would soon stop but that unless Tehran signed a peace deal, “we’ll bomb them all.”

Trump became increasingly frustrated that efforts to negotiate a peace deal had stalled, and he hoped that the bombing efforts would push Iran to reach an agreement.

In fact, after confirming the attacks on Tuesday, he told his aides to convey a message to Tehran through mediators in Qatar; The attacks were a response to Iranian forces shooting down an Apache helicopter with two crew members on board and were not meant to be the start of another all-out war.

However, he said that unless Iran accepts its demands, military pressure will increase.

Attack against Iran described as ‘self-defense attacks’ after Iran struck US assets

Iranian missiles appear to have been launched earlier in the day

The US fired nearly 50 Tomahawk missiles into the country on Wednesday night.

Iranian state media reported that explosions were heard around Minab and Sirik, near the Strait of Hormuz in the south of the country.

Air defense systems at Asaluyah were also activated; However, there has been no attack so far on the key energy center housing refineries and petrochemical complexes. CNN reported.

As the attacks continued, Iran’s Hatem Al-Anbiya military command center warned that the Strait of Hormuz would be closed to all maritime traffic and that any ships seen passing through this waterway would be hit.

“In light of the ongoing provocations of the criminal United States and the beginning of attacks by the occupying army of this country against certain areas of the southern Hormozgan province, from now on the Strait of Hormuz has been declared closed to all ships, including oil tankers and commercial ships, due to insecurity in the region, and any passage will be targeted,” the military command said in a statement.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Navy claimed on social media that two ‘unfit’ oil tankers had already been hit due to the closure.

However, the US Central Command opposed the claims that the strait was closed.

It was stated on social media that “Commercial ships continue to enter and exit the Strait of Hormuz tonight.”

The Iranian missile was launched after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announced an attack on a US base in Jordan and 21 other targets in the Gulf.

The Strait of Hormuz, through which approximately 20 percent of the world’s oil supply passes, has become a major sticking point in negotiations with Iran.

Trump said the US naval blockade halted Iran’s trade and prevented Iran from paying military fees, while also allowing other countries to export ‘vast amounts of oil’.

He also claimed that because many of Iran’s radars were destroyed, authorities there were unable to detect ships passing through the waterway.

And in a post on social media, Trump said a ‘secret mission’ resulted in ‘more than 100 million barrels of oil passing through the Bosphorus and entering the ‘open market.’

Iranian regime claims it shot down two ‘incompatible’ oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz (pictured)

Trump’s renewed US attacks on Wednesday came just hours after the president met with advisers in the Situation Room to discuss options for a major bombing raid.

He was considering a ‘scale but short-term’ operation Sources told Axios.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters after the meeting that the US would hit ‘important facilities’ inside Iran.

Hegseth said, “CENTCOM will be busy tonight because we will hit Iran hard,” and noted that the purpose of the attacks was to push Iran towards diplomacy.

‘They will throw tap, tap, tap bombs from the USA to important facilities in Iran. ‘It is not to restart the war, but to determine the terms of the agreement.’

Trump also warned: ‘We hit them hard yesterday, we’ll hit them hard again today.’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters: ‘CENTCOM will be busy tonight because we are going to hit Iran hard’

However, Tehran had threatened to spread the conflict to other countries if the attack took place on Wednesday.

Ibrahim Azizi, head of the national security commission of the Iranian parliament, vowed to retaliate against X, writing: ‘This time the war will not be limited to the region.’

Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani also told the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday that his country ‘has never negotiated under threat or pressure and will never bow to pressure or questioning.’

Meanwhile, Qatari mediators were holding talks with Iranian officials to reach an agreement.

Trump insisted that any deal to end the war in Iran would require the country to give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium; it’s only a short technical step up to weapons-grade levels.

People run in front of burnt cars that were attacked in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon on Wednesday, June 10.

However, Iran refuses to give up uranium, which it claims is used for peaceful purposes, and demands the easing of sanctions imposed by the United States.

Iranian officials also want frozen assets to be released before a final deal is made, but Trump has refused.

In addition, Iran has insisted that any agreement to end the war must also end the conflict between its ally Hezbollah and Israel; but Israel instead intensified its military campaign against the Lebanon-based militant group.

During the hearing, Trump accused Iranian forces of shooting down a US helicopter with two crew members on board on Monday; The helicopter was later recovered.

The US responded by striking command and control, defense and surveillance stations late Tuesday; Iran announced on Wednesday that it attacked American bases in Jordan and Bahrain.

Trump also threatened to target Iranian bridges and power plants, a step he threatened just before the ceasefire but never followed through on.

‘I won’t tell you that. But I can do this,’ Trump said in response to an AFP journalist’s question about a Fox News report stating that he was considering such plans.

But the president also said he hoped for “peace for the world” despite the conflict on his 80th birthday Sunday, when he hosted a cage fight on the White House lawn.