{"id":107359,"date":"2026-04-17T06:29:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/iran-is-a-tough-and-smart-country-their-people-are-good-fighters-says-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T06:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:29:25","slug":"iran-is-a-tough-and-smart-country-their-people-are-good-fighters-says-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/iran-is-a-tough-and-smart-country-their-people-are-good-fighters-says-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran is a \u2018tough and smart\u2019 country; their people are good fighters, says Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-id=\"474ce0e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\">\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump described Iran as a \u201ctough, smart country\u201d while asserting that its military capacity had been severely reduced. \u201cAnd against a very tough, smart country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These people were fighters, and you know, I don\u2019t want to claim it before the fact, but they (Iran) have no Navy left. 158 ships at the bottom of the sea. 158, think of it,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an event in Las Vegas, Nevada , Trump said we did not want to go to war with Iran, but that it became necessary, he added the situation with Iran is moving toward a positive conclusion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F1449448903329370%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=267&amp;t=0\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He claimed that 111 missiles were fired at a U.S. naval ship, all of which were intercepted and destroyed, preventing the attack.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the United States has the world\u2019s strongest military, is continuing to improve its capabilities, and that the war with Iran is being fought due to Iran\u2019s nuclear program, which he said must be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said economic disruptions were caused by Iran and compared the conflict to the long wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also said the next meeting between the US and Iran may take place over the weekend, adding to optimism that the Iran war could be nearing an end.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Iran had offered not to possess nuclear weapons for more than 20 years. Tehran\u2019s nuclear ambitions were a sticking point at talks in Islamabad last weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump hints at possible Pakistan visit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to see what happens. But I think we\u2019re very close to making a deal with Iran,\u201d he told reporters outside the White House. Reports had said that while the US proposed a 20 year pause to Iran\u2019s nuclear programme at Islamabad talks, while Iran had counter proposed a pause of five years.<\/p>\n<p>As Trump\u2019s latest remarks are setting off hopes for an end to the Middle East war, Trump also hinted at a possibility that he might visit Pakistan to finalise the peace deal with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The US President heaped praise on Pakistan when a reporter asked him if he would visit the country to seal the deal with Iran. \u201cI would. I would go to Pakistan, yeah. Pakistan has been great. They\u2019ve been so good. Islamabad, I\u2019ll be, I might go. Yeah. If the deal is signed in Islamabad, I might go,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>US-Iran war began on February 28 with a US -Israeli attack and thousands have been killed since then. Oil prices have also surged, creating a major political headache for the US president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Israel-Lebanon ceasefire starts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel went into effect on Thursday after last week\u2019s strikes on Lebanon caused massive loss of lives and widespread destruction. The attacks also threatened the fragile truce between Iran and the US as Iran termed the strikes as ceasefire violation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump described Iran as a \u201ctough, smart country\u201d while asserting that its military capacity had been severely reduced. \u201cAnd against a very tough, smart country. These people were fighters, and you know, I don\u2019t want to claim it before the fact, but they (Iran) have no Navy left. 158 ships at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/praise.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}