{"id":58604,"date":"2026-04-07T08:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=58604"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:39:15","slug":"ron-paul-asks-did-trump-just-threaten-to-nuke-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/07\/ron-paul-asks-did-trump-just-threaten-to-nuke-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul asks: Did Trump Just Threaten To Nuke Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In perhaps his most unhinged social media post yet, President Trump threatened tIran hat a &#8220;whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.&#8221; Speculation is rising that he is considering using a nuclear weapon against the country unless they capitulate by 8:00 PM tonight. Will he?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NMyeTzpd7g4?si=lyqRBIgOcor4Up9-\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report: In perhaps his most unhinged social media post yet, President Trump threatened tIran hat a &#8220;whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.&#8221; Speculation is rising that he is considering using a nuclear weapon against the country unless they capitulate by 8:00 PM tonight. Will he? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[767],"class_list":["post-58604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58608,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58604\/revisions\/58608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58604"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}