From the Liveblog of
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Trump warns ‘today Iran will be hit very hard’; says it is now ‘the loser of the Middle East’
US President Donald Trump warns that Iran will be hit “very hard” today unless the regime surrenders, and threatens unnamed individuals and areas that were previously not targeted.
“Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, because of Iran’s bad behavior, are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time,” Trump writes on Truth Social.
“Iran is no longer the ‘Bully of the Middle East,’ they are, instead, ‘THE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST,’ and will be for many decades until they surrender or, more likely, completely collapse!” he writes.
Trump refers to the apology issued by Masoud Pezeshkian earlier today in which the Iranian president said that Iran’s Middle East neighbors would not be attacked so long as attacks were not launched from their territory.
“Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. This promise was only made because of the relentless US and Israeli attack,” Trump writes.
Less than an hour after Pezeshkian’s statement, a drone apparently impacted at Dubai International Airport and their were reports of attacks on Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar.
The Times of Israel Community.