Trump Orders CENTCOM to ‘OPEN THE GATES OF HELL’ on Iran, Surges Military Assets in Middle East

President Trump is bombing Iran for the twelfth straight night, CENTCOM announces.

🚨🇺🇸 Trump on Truth social: "Open the gates of hell". https://t.co/khbps93dLd pic.twitter.com/pfdpDXkCrt

— C14 News | EN (@c14english) July 23, 2026

Trump posted the image with that message on his Truth account on Wednesday (Truth). He also attended the dignified transfer of four U.S. servicemembers in Delaware. The Hill: Trump warned that Iran would pay “a big price” following the deaths of the American soldiers. “They’re going to pay a big price. They’re being decimated,” the president told reporters ahead of the dignified transfer, when asked about a report that Iran targeted U.S. soldiers’ barracks (The Hill). More from Trump: From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran (Truth). Senator Tom Cotton: These fanatics have made clear they don’t want to negotiate. The talks are a farce that are just designed to string us along. We need to finish our military operational plans, which will deal an even more severe blow to their conventional missile and drone forces (Cotton).

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just posted that he has ordered US CENTCOM to "open the GATES OF HELL" on Iran after American troops were killed

47 posted this right after attending the dignified transfer of 4 fallen American heroes…

He's done.

Pray for our forces in the… pic.twitter.com/MpUD7wOsCo

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 22, 2026

US Surging Military Assets in Middle East

The squadrons of fighter jets have been staged. Watch to see if they’ll be unleashed on the terrorist regime.

Wall Street Journal: The U.S. is surging forces, medics and weaponry to the Middle East to give President Trump more muscular military options as he considers expanding the conflict against Iran, according to people familiar with the matter. In the past week, special-operations forces have deployed to the region from their U.S. bases, according to flight-tracking data and U.S. officials. Squadrons of jet fighters have been staged across the Middle East, and bomber aircraft at bases in the U.S. and U.K. are on high alert to ramp up operations, according to one of the officials. Additionally, more than 150 medics have arrived at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany in recent days, another official said. The hospital is the primary location for treating troops injured in combat in the Middle East (Wall Street Journal).

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