Donald Trump Threatens Imminent Iran Invasion
Donald Trump announced on Thursday that 'bigger, more powerful' strikes on Iran will take place tonight, and confirmed his intention to seize Kharg Island.
Speaking to Fox News, Trump said Iran's defences are eliminated and that U.S. forces could 'walk in there tomorrow' with a small ground force. 'We could take over the whole place,' he said.
The escalation comes one day after the New York Times published reporting linking Trump to the Epstein files, raising questions about the timing of a conflict that has now intensified twice in two days.
The USA has launched fresh attacks on Iran within days of a major outlet reporting on Trump’s Epstein connections on multiple occasions. Yesterday’s NYT report was one of the more damning pieces in recent memory, and has now been followed up with Donald Trump’s most serious threats against Iran since the beginning of the unprovoked war.
When the USA and Israel launched “Operation Epic Fury” on February 28, the Epstein scandal was dominating political discourse critics renamed the operation “Operation Epstein Fury” within hours. In December 2025, the same day a DOJ document release showed Trump had flown on Epstein’s jet at least eight times, contradicting his own denials, the regime escalated pressure on Venezuela with boat strikes and military threats.
Republican congressman Thomas Massie made the connection explicitly when the strikes began, writing that bombing Iran would not make the Epstein files disappear. A Maine Senate candidate built campaign messaging around the same argument. Within days of each Epstein document release, the conflict has escalated sharply enough to displace the story from every front page. That is now three documented instances of overlap. At some point, the timing stops being a coincidence and starts being a pattern.
It follows two days of U.S. strikes on Iranian territory, strikes that the USA claims are in response to the downing of a U.S. helicopter that was present in hostile airspace. The story of these strikes doesn’t even pass the USA’s flimsy narrative however, with the U.S. investigation on the downing remaining incomplete.
The two days of strikes have already led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz to all traffic, the opening of the Strait was claimed to be a U.S. war aim, despite the waterway being open before any war was launched.
Trump framed the seizure plan as comparable to U.S. policy in Venezuela, which he claimed was “working out brilliantly”, a characterisation with no basis in fact.
Trump claimed Iran's defences are gone and resistance futile. His own intelligence agencies assessed otherwise – roughly half of Iran's missile launchers remained intact as of April, with thousands of drones still operational and the military-industrial base already rebuilding. The claims of an obliterated military, and the claims that the obliterated military downed a helicopter, are not two claims that can live side-by-side.
Kharg Island is sovereign Iranian territory. Trump told Fox News directly that taking it is his preference. Seizing it would constitute an invasion under international law.
Since Donald Trump’s threat, Iran's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission spokesperson Ebrahim Rezaei rejected any suggestion of capitulation. He posted to X saying, 'Trump has two paths: either he must surrender, or he must surrender’.