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Iran live updates: Trump considering 'massive attack' on Iran but hasn't made final call

CENTCOM launched a 12th consecutive night of strikes on Iran on Wednesday.

Last Updated: July 23, 2026, 2:41 PM EDT

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.

Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries.

The U.S. and Iran have nonetheless continued to exchange strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz the primary flashpoint.

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Trump says he is considering 'massive attack' on Iran but hasn’t made a final call

President Donald Trump told Axios that he is "considering a massive attack" on Iran, saying the U.S. is "all set" for strikes "bigger than ever before."

"I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it," Trump reportedly told Axios.

According to Axios, the president has not set a deadline for when that decision might be made.

The president also said that Iranians "want to negotiate." Despite Trump’s claims that Iran is eager to negotiate, he also said "they haven't received enough pain yet,” according to Axios.

10:51 AM EDT

House adopts Iran war powers resolution for 2nd time since start of conflict

The House of Representatives adopted a resolution to curb President Donald Trump’s Iran war powers by a vote of 214 to 208 – delivering a major rebuke to the administration for the second time since the start of the conflict.


Four Republicans -- Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Warren Davidson (Ohio) and Tom Barrett (Mich.) -- voted in favor with all Democrats present to adopt the resolution. The vote was called at 10:25 a.m.


While this is a major rebuke to the president’s handling of the war with Iran, the resolution is symbolic in nature and expresses the sentiment of the full House.


The concurrent resolution, which calls on the president to terminate the use of U.S. armed forces in hostilities against Iran, now heads to the Senate for consideration. Even if the Senate follows suit, a concurrent resolution does not carry the weight of law and is not subject to veto or presented to the president.


This is the fifth time the House has taken up a Democrat-led Iran war powers resolution in recent months. The last time the House adopted a similar resolution with bipartisan support was on June 3.


The Senate later Thursday morning is taking a procedural vote on a different Iran war powers resolution.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller

10:00 AM EDT

Trump threatens ‘major military punishment’ if Houthis attack again

As the Houthis claim to have attacked two Saudi Arabian ships on Wednesday, President Donald Trump is warning that the U.S. will inflict "major military punishment" on Iran and the Houthis if this happens again.

"If they do this again, the U.S. will hold Iran responsible, in that the Houthis are a Surrogate and/or Proxy of Iran, and major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis, themselves, who I am very disappointed with,” Trump wrote on social media.

The president reflected on previous escalation between the U.S. and the Houthis, but said the Iranian-backed rebels group have "acted very responsibly" throughout the almost-five month war with Iran. Trump also said the Houthis had been "very professionally and smart" prior to this point.

6:14 AM EDT

Kuwait, Jordan confirm fresh Iranian attacks

Both Kuwait and Jordan confirmed new Iranian attacks on Thursday, after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it targeted U.S. bases in both countries.

Kuwait's Armed Forces said in a post to X that its air defenses were responding to "hostile drone threats" on Thursday.

Jordan's official news agency PETRA, meanwhile, said on Thursday that the country's air defenses downed three Iranian missiles and six drones over the previous 24 hours. One missile was not intercepted and "landed in a remote, uninhabited area," the agency said.

-ABC News' Morgan Winsor

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