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This week marks six months since the United States and Israel launched associated strikes connected Iran.
In that time, US President Donald Trump has published astatine slightest 319 posts mentioning Iran connected Truth Social, his societal media level – astir 1 each 14 hours.
Read successful sequence, these posts, oregon “truths” arsenic they are known connected the platform, signifier a grounds of however a warfare was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and past reopened, each successful the president’s ain words.
Al Jazeera analysed these posts. Here is what we found.
Between February 28 and August 25, Trump posted astatine slightest 4,189 times connected Truth Social, an mean of 24 posts a day, oregon 1 each hour. One successful each 13 mentioned Iran – 319 posts successful total, oregon 1 each 14 hours.
While helium posted astatine each hours, the astir communal clip for his Iran posts was the greeting successful Washington, betwixt 8 and 11am (13:00-16:00 GMT), corresponding to aboriginal evening successful Tehran.
The connection unreality beneath provides a snapshot of the astir commonly utilized terms. “Iran” dominates astatine 510 mentions, much than 3 times the adjacent word. But the 2 that travel are not Iran’s leaders oregon its atomic programme: they are his ain sanction and his ain country.
Trump refers to himself arsenic “President Donald J Trump” oregon “President DJT” 221 times, much often than helium mentions the Strait of Hormuz, atomic weapons and Israel combined.
His sign-off, “Thank you for your attraction to this matter”, closes 1 successful each 4 posts.
Before the war: ‘MAKE A DEAL!’
In the weeks starring up to February 28, Iran was an occasional subject, appearing successful 17 posts betwixt January 1 and February 27, astir 1 each 3 days.
The messaging blended hardline threats with transactional diplomacy. Trump applauded Iranian enactment for cancelling much than 800 scheduled hangings and expressed enactment for anti-regime protesters. He besides threatened 25 percent tariffs connected nations doing concern with Iran, and repeatedly urged Tehran to negotiate, declaring: “MAKE A DEAL!”
Then, connected January 28, helium announced that “a monolithic Armada is heading to Iran”.
[Screengrab/@realDonaldTrump/Truth Social]Over the adjacent month, the messaging escalated the menace of unit with respective mentions of “Operation Midnight Hammer”, the US subject cognition of June 2025 that targeted and severely damaged Iranian atomic enrichment facilities towards the extremity of the 12-day warfare with Israel.
February 28: ‘Major combat operations’
On February 28 astatine 1:35am Eastern Time (06:35 GMT), US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the commencement of Operation Epic Fury, astatine the absorption of the president of the United States.
Fifty-five minutes later, astatine 07:30 GMT, US President Donald Trump posted an eight-minute video to Truth Social providing much details astir the US’s “major combat operations” successful Iran.
[Screengrab/@realDonaldTrump/Truth Social]Later that evening, Trump posted: “Khamenei, 1 of the astir evil radical successful History, is dead”, referring to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had led the state since 1989.
Over the adjacent 2 weeks, Trump posted 40 much times, arguing helium was close to motorboat the strikes and ruling retired immoderate colony abbreviated of “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”
The Strait of Hormuz, which would travel to predominate the adjacent 5 months, went unmentioned until March 10.
On March 13, Trump announced that CENTCOM had “totally obliterated each MILITARY people successful Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island,” adding that helium had chosen not to destruct the island’s lipid infrastructure “for reasons of decency”.
March 14: ‘We person already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability.’
Two weeks into the war, connected March 14, Trump posted: “We person already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability.”
Trump spent overmuch of the remainder of March and April cataloguing demolition and issuing deadlines to Iran.
He announced strikes connected Kharg island, bridges and powerfulness plants, acceptable 48-hour and 10-day ultimatums implicit the Strait of Hormuz, and repeated that Iran’s navy, aerial unit and enactment were “gone”.
Between the threats, helium attacked NATO, France, the United Kingdom, the Democrats – which helium repeatedly calls “Dumocrats” – and the “fake news” media.
April 7: ‘A full civilization volition dice tonight’
On April 7, Trump warned that “a full civilization volition dice tonight”, arsenic helium announced a “final” onslaught connected Iran. It ne'er came. Ten hours and 26 minutes later, helium said Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir had asked him to clasp off, and that helium had agreed to a two-week ceasefire connected information that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
[Screengrab/@realDonaldTrump/Truth Social]April 12: ‘BLOCKADING immoderate and each Ships’
On the greeting of April 12, Trump posted an nonfiction floating a naval blockade arsenic the “Trump paper the president holds if Iran won’t bend”. Hours aboriginal helium announced one, writing, “the United States Navy, the Finest successful the World, volition statesman the process of BLOCKADING immoderate and each Ships trying to enter, oregon leave, the Strait of Hormuz.”
The naval blockade, which helium aboriginal nicknamed “A WALL OF STEEL”, became the 1 instrumentality helium ne'er traded away.
[Screengrab/@realDonaldTrump/Truth Social]April 20: ‘Israel ne'er talked maine into the warfare with Iran’
On April 20, Trump posted that “Israel ne'er talked maine into the warfare with Iran”.
For a warfare the 2 countries launched together, however, Israel is astir absent from his relationship of it, appearing conscionable 32 times, less than successful 1 successful 10 posts. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is named conscionable twice.
The pursuing day, Pakistan asked Trump to widen the ceasefire. He agreed, but kept the blockade. Iran, helium repeated, was losing $500m a time arsenic a effect of his blockade.
The adjacent 3 weeks are mostly attrition. At astir 4am connected April 29, Trump posted that “Iran has conscionable informed america that they are successful a ‘State of Collapse'” and wanted the strait to beryllium opened earlier posting an AI-generated representation of himself holding an assault-style rifle.
[Screengrab/@realDonaldTrump/Truth Social]May 3: ‘Project Freedom volition statesman Monday morning’
On May 3, Trump announced Project Freedom, a US Navy cognition to escort ships from uninvolved countries retired of the strait, earlier pausing it 3 days aboriginal “Based connected the petition of Pakistan and different Countries”.
Between May and June, the warfare became a negotiation, conducted successful public.
On May 18, Trump said helium had cancelled a planned onslaught astatine the petition of Gulf leaders. Five days later, helium posted from the Oval Office aft a telephone with the aforesaid leaders arsenic good arsenic officials from Pakistan, Turkiye, Egypt, Jordan and Bahrain, negotiating a Memorandum of Understanding connected peace. Israel was not connected the call. Trump said helium had spoken to Netanyahu separately.
For the adjacent 4 weeks, the warfare is fought done the blockade alternatively than by air, with Trump mounting retired his presumption connected May 29 and aboriginal going connected to picture Iran arsenic a “FAILED NATION” incapable to wage its ain military.
On June 11, Trump promised to deed Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT”, past cancelled a fewer hours later.
June 14: ‘The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is present complete’
On June 14, Trump declared the statement implicit and told the world’s ships to commencement their engines. The aforesaid day, helium criticised an Israeli onslaught connected Beirut, saying it “should not person happened”.
[Screengrab/@realDonaldTrump/Truth Social]The woody started fraying immediately. On June 26, successful betwixt 2 posts astir however bully his support ratings were, Trump said Iran had fired astatine slightest 4 drones astatine ships successful the Strait, 1 striking the platform of a cargo carrier.
Two days aft that, US craft deed Iranian rocket stores and coastal radar “for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN!”. Trump ended his station by stating: “There whitethorn travel a constituent erstwhile we are nary longer capable to beryllium reasonable, and volition beryllium forced to militarily implicit the occupation that we precise successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran volition nary longer exist! President DJT”.
On July 8, Trump posted an representation of a occurrence astatine Chabahar successful southeastern Iran, reposted from a pro-Israel open-source quality account, saying it was “in retribution for yesterday’s bombing of ships by Iran”.
[Screengrab / @realDonaldTrump/ Truth Social]July 10: ‘The Cease Fire is OVER!’
On July 10, Trump wrote that the ceasefire was “OVER”. Three days later, the blockade returned – successful his words, “we are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE”. On July 22, helium acceptable a rule: each clip Iran shoots astatine a vessel successful the strait, the United States volition destruct “ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT”. On August 2, helium cancelled different planned attack, this clip astatine the petition of Iran and unnamed determination countries.
August 10: ‘Donald Trump Won the Iran War’
On August 10, Trump posted a nexus to an nonfiction with the headline, “Donald Trump Won the Iran War”.
Through August, the warfare has go an economical one. The 60-day memorandum of knowing expired with thing to regenerate it; Trump said helium would state the Strait a US “territory” and, connected August 19, helium announced the “MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY”, threatening immoderate federation that offers Iran a fiscal lifeline.
[Screengrab / @realDonaldTrump/ Truth Social]All told, crossed 32,478 words, six months of warfare reached the nationalist 1 station astatine a time, successful the president’s ain words.
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