Is the war between the United States and Iran getting worse? Trump was revealed to have held a meeting in the White House Situation Room to discuss a "devastating blow" to Iraq

Is the war between the United States and Iran getting worse? Trump was revealed to have held a meeting in the White House Situation Room to discuss a "devastating blow" to Iraq.

In the past few days, the situation in the Middle East has escalated suddenly. As the competition between the United States and Iran over control of Hormuz intensified, the two sides conducted multiple rounds of mutual attacks, clouding the prospects of reaching a peace agreement.

The latest news shows that the United States may launch a larger strike against Iran next.

According to CCTV news reports, on the 14th local time, people familiar with the matter told the media that US President Trump held a meeting in the White House Situation Room that day to discuss a large-scale attack plan against Iran, which "will be more extensive in scale than the current strike around the Strait of Hormuz." It is understood that the

meeting discussed strikes against Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz, and the core topic was "a new plan to carry out devastating strikes against Iran's strategic targets." According to reports, Trump seems willing to escalate the war to cause enough damage to force Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and accept Trump's demands on nuclear issues.

It is reported that those attending the meeting included Vice President Vance, Secretary of State Rubio, Defense Secretary Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Kaine, CIA Director Ratcliffe, US Presidential Envoy Witkov, etc.

Before convening the meeting, Trump said that the United States’ military strikes on Iran would continue “until I say enough is enough.” Unless Iran returns to the negotiating table, U.S. forces will strike its bridges and power plants next week. Trump also said he would not rule out sending ground troops to Iran.

As Trump convened this meeting, the US military launched air strikes against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz area and Iran's southern coast for the fourth consecutive day. Most of the targets were air defense and radar systems, anti-ship missile sites and drone launch sites.

The cause was Iran's attack on multiple merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz that did not follow its designated route. U.S. officials said the strikes were aimed at significantly reducing Iran's ability to launch attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz. In response, Iran continued to launch missiles and drones at U.S.

military bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain. As the focus of this round of escalation of the situation between the United States and Iran, the traffic volume in the Strait of Hormuz has dropped significantly compared with the initial stage after the United States and Iran reached the memorandum of understanding.

Over the weekend, Iran announced that the Strait of Hormuz would be closed indefinitely until the United States ceases intervention in the region, while the United States insists that the waterway remains open.

Currently, the dispute between the United States and Iran over the management of the Strait of Hormuz continues to intensify: the Iranian parliament has drafted new rules for the management of the Strait, and the US military has restarted its naval blockade of Iran.

Trump said on the 13th that the United States would resume its naval blockade against Iran and charge a 20% fee on all goods transported through the Strait of Hormuz.

But on the 14th, he changed his tune and said that after talks with leaders of Middle Eastern countries, he had decided to replace the 20% fee for transporting goods through the Strait of Hormuz with a trade and investment agreement between Gulf countries and the United States. (

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