{"id":550688,"date":"2026-03-19T14:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/550688\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:14:17","slug":"us-iran-war-updates-hegseth-refuses-to-confirm-wars-end-as-airstrikes-hit-oil-refineries-across-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/550688\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran war updates: Hegseth refuses to confirm war\u2019s end as airstrikes hit oil refineries across Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says the United States has \u201cstruck 7,000 targets\u201d in Iran since the war began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Secretary also says Iran\u2019s navy is \u201cno longer a factor\u201d in the conflict, as the United States has purportedly destroyed 120 naval ships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Hegseth then took aim at the higher ups of the Iranian military, labelling their roles as \u201ctemp jobs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cA regime like that, refusing to abandon its nuclear ambitions, is not just a regional problem, it\u2019s a direct threat to America, to freedom and to civilisation,\u201d Hegseth said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThe world, the Middle East, our ungrateful allies in Europe, and even segments of our own press should be saying one thing to President Trump \u2014 \u2018thank you\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says the United States has \u201cstruck 7,000 targets\u201d in Iran since the war&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,12241,44,84,41,39,42,40,5071,1720],"class_list":["post-550688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-politics","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}