{"id":36301,"date":"2026-01-23T01:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/trump-us-ships-moving-toward-iran-but-hopes-to-avoid-hostilities\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T01:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:25:04","slug":"trump-us-ships-moving-toward-iran-but-hopes-to-avoid-hostilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/trump-us-ships-moving-toward-iran-but-hopes-to-avoid-hostilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: US ships moving toward Iran, but hopes to avoid hostilities."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_ce0d0e136645838a\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday the movement of US military vessels toward Iran, emphasizing that they are heading there &#8220;in anticipation of any emergency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Speaking to reporters aboard the presidential aircraft, Boeing 747\u2014known as &#8220;Air Force One&#8221;\u2014Trump said: &#8220;We have many ships heading there, and we have a large fleet heading there,&#8221; noting that &#8220;we have a great force heading toward Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The US President added, &#8220;We will see what happens,&#8221; remaining non-committal regarding future developments in the situation.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Indicating a desire not to escalate the situation, Trump continued: &#8220;I would prefer that nothing happens, but we are watching them very closely,&#8221; noting that the United States is closely monitoring Iranian statements.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">This announcement comes at a time of rising tension between the United States and Iran following a recent wave of protests in the country.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">The Iranian government recently announced the cancellation of scheduled executions of protesters, a move President Trump touched upon in his answers to reporters.<\/p>\n<hr data-path-to-node=\"6\" \/>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\"><b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">United News Network \u2013 UNN Arabic<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">An independent media platform providing reliable news and objective analysis, seeking to promote peace and cultural dialogue around the world, to convey the truth and build bridges of understanding between peoples.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">For more news, you can visit our homepage:<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\"><a class=\"ng-star-inserted\" href=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-hveid=\"0\" data-ved=\"0CAAQ_4QMahgKEwjCxr29zKCSAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQkQI\">https:\/\/un-news.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday the movement of US military vessels toward Iran, emphasizing that they are heading there &#8220;in anticipation of any emergency.&#8221; Speaking to reporters aboard the presidential aircraft, Boeing 747\u2014known as &#8220;Air Force One&#8221;\u2014Trump said: &#8220;We have many ships heading there, and we have a large fleet heading there,&#8221; noting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}