November 14, 2026
At the urging of his Gulf allies, Trump reportedly favors continuing Washington’s economic strangulation campaign against Iran through sanctions and a naval blockade rather than resuming military aggression.
Israel, by contrast, continues to lobby the White House to resume the war. According to Axios, Mossad chief Roman Gofman met with CIA Director John Ratcliffe in Washington to push for renewed strikes on Iran.
US intelligence agencies say a new war would do little to change Iran’s demands, Reuters reports, as Trump is warned that weapons stocks are alarmingly low and the cost of the war soars into the tens of billions.
“We don’t need a deal with Iran,” Trump declared on Thursday, claiming that “we’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”
In the same post, Trump removed US Vice President JD Vance, who had been leading Washington’s indirect negotiations with Tehran, from the Iran file.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also claimed that Washington has no need for further military action against Iran, arguing that the severe economic damage inflicted by Iran has “significantly weakened” Tehran.
On 14 November, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that at least four tankers, including a supertanker, had struck mines and caught fire near the Strait of Hormuz after entering restricted waters without authorization.
A day earlier, the IRGC said it “targeted and destroyed” a US early-warning radar in Bahrain in retaliation for a US air strike on a telecommunications tower at Sirik in southern Iran.
By 11 November, at least 25 seafarers had been killed in and around Hormuz. October saw more incidents involving commercial vessels than any other month since the war on Iran began.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary, General Mohsen Rezaei, said the US and Israel have lost the international, legal, and domestic political cover to sustain the war, stressing that Tehran will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until its seven conditions are met.
Gulf
monarchies support Washington’s economic siege of Iran while Israel lobbies for
renewed military aggression
US
President Donald Trump has signaled to senior security advisers that he may
refrain from launching any new attacks against Iran, unless Tehran or Yemen’s
Ansarallah fire the first shot, Reuters reported on 14 November.
At the urging of his Gulf allies, Trump reportedly favors continuing Washington’s economic strangulation campaign against Iran through sanctions and a naval blockade rather than resuming military aggression.
Israel, by contrast, continues to lobby the White House to resume the war. According to Axios, Mossad chief Roman Gofman met with CIA Director John Ratcliffe in Washington to push for renewed strikes on Iran.
US intelligence agencies say a new war would do little to change Iran’s demands, Reuters reports, as Trump is warned that weapons stocks are alarmingly low and the cost of the war soars into the tens of billions.
“We don’t need a deal with Iran,” Trump declared on Thursday, claiming that “we’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”
In the same post, Trump removed US Vice President JD Vance, who had been leading Washington’s indirect negotiations with Tehran, from the Iran file.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also claimed that Washington has no need for further military action against Iran, arguing that the severe economic damage inflicted by Iran has “significantly weakened” Tehran.
On 14 November, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that at least four tankers, including a supertanker, had struck mines and caught fire near the Strait of Hormuz after entering restricted waters without authorization.
A day earlier, the IRGC said it “targeted and destroyed” a US early-warning radar in Bahrain in retaliation for a US air strike on a telecommunications tower at Sirik in southern Iran.
By 11 November, at least 25 seafarers had been killed in and around Hormuz. October saw more incidents involving commercial vessels than any other month since the war on Iran began.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary, General Mohsen Rezaei, said the US and Israel have lost the international, legal, and domestic political cover to sustain the war, stressing that Tehran will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until its seven conditions are met.
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