Trump Threatens Iran With New Strikes as Memorandum of Understanding Expires: ‘What We’ve Used So Far Is Peanuts’

President Donald Trump threatened to hit Iran with a new round of strikes on Monday, saying that what U.S. forces have unleashed in the months-long war against Iran is “peanuts” compared to what awaits.

Trump made the statement during a call with Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst as the memorandum of understanding with the Islamic regime is set to expire on Monday.

Yingst, reporting from Tel Aviv, Israel, discussed the call while appearing on Fox & Friends.

“I just got off the phone with President Trump, who discussed the situation with Iran as the 60-day memorandum of understanding expires. The president told Fox News Iran should raise the white flag of surrender. He went on to say, ‘I have no time schedule. I’m not in a hurry.'”

Trump boasted to Yingst that the U.S. Naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz has put a stranglehold on Iran’s economy, despite what Tehran has said publicly.

“He said they are good poker players, but they are dying and that the midterms in the United States have nothing to do with the president’s thinking,” Yingst said.

Trump also threatened to engage with Oman, which is conducting talks with Iran over the strait, saying, “We’ll bomb the ‘S’ out of them” if they get involved, Yingst reported.

Touching on recent reports that the U.S. has drained its long-range missile stockpile, Trump told Yingst, “What we have used so far is peanuts.”

“He went on to say the United States has a lot of mid-level weapons and that many of the more advanced systems, the president says, were given away by President [Joe] Biden to Ukraine, for example, when we’re talking about air defense that is needed right now in the Middle East,” Yingst told Fox & Friends hosts Brian Kilmeade, Lawrence Jones, and Ainsley Earhardt.

Also on Monday morning, Trump took to Truth Social to reiterate his primary focus in the ongoing conflict with Iran, saying, “The number one Goal is, and always will be, that Iran cannot have, in any way, shape, or form, a Nuclear Weapon. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Watch above via Fox News.

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