{"id":332669,"date":"2026-03-11T01:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/332669\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:54:08","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-war-on-iran-is-either-very-complete-or-just-starting-depending-on-who-is-talking-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/332669\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: war on Iran is either \u2018very complete\u2019 or just starting, depending on who is talking | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

How much longer will US strikes on Iran continue? Getting a clear answer from the Trump administration<\/a> has been difficult \u2013 getting a consistent one, even more so.<\/p>\n

According to Donald Trump, \u201cthe war is very complete<\/a>\u201d. At least that\u2019s what he told CBS News in a call on Monday.<\/p>\n

That same day, the US Department of Defense posted on Twitter\/X<\/a>: \u201cWe have Only Just Begun to Fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later on Monday, the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth<\/a> said the war would end on \u201cour timeline\u201d and that the US would not stop until \u201cthe enemy is totally and decisively defeated\u201d, promising Tuesday would see the most intense strikes in Iran yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s after Tehran residents say the Iranian capital endured what they described as its worst night of aerial bombardment overnight on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

At least 1,245 civilians have been killed, including 194 children, by the US-Israeli war on Iran, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists in Iran group.<\/p>\n

Tehran endures \u2018worst night of strikes\u2019 amid mixed US messages about more to come<\/p>\n

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth<\/a> has warned that Tuesday would be the \u201cmost intense\u201d day of US strikes yet, even as he blamed Iran for civilian casualties by claiming its forces were firing missiles from schools and hospitals.<\/p>\n

Speaking alongside Gen Dan Caine, the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, Hegseth alleged Iran<\/a> was deliberately firing missiles from schools and hospitals, describing the country\u2019s leadership as \u201cdesperate and scrambling like the terrorist cowards they are\u201d.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

What evidence is there that the US was responsible for Minab school bombing?<\/p>\n

The bombing of a primary school in Minab on 28 February killed scores of people, most of them seven- to 12-year-old girls. The strike is the worst mass killing of the US and Israel\u2019s war on Iran<\/a> so far \u2013 and has been described by Unesco as a \u201cgrave violation\u201d of international law. A growing body of evidence indicates that the strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school was carried out by the US.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

Georgia votes in high-stakes primary for Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s House seat<\/p>\n

A special election for the successor to Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s congressional district in Georgia on Tuesday will be a test of Donald Trump\u2019s sway, and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in a deep-red pocket of the southern state.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

US attorneys handpicked by Pam Bondi were appointed illegally, judge rules<\/p>\n

Three prosecutors installed by Donald Trump\u2019s administration<\/a> to lead the New Jersey attorney general\u2019s office after the president\u2019s former personal lawyer was disqualified from the role in December were also illegally appointed, a federal judge has ruled.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump names Erika Kirk to key advisory board of US Air Force Academy<\/p>\n

Donald Trump has appointed Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk<\/a>, to a key advisory board of the US Air Force Academy.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old joins a number of other loyalists to the president on the 16-member panel of the academy\u2019s board of visitors, which according to its website<\/a> \u201cinquires into the morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods and other matters\u201d of the Colorado Springs military training facility.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

What else happened today:<\/p>\n

Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on Monday, 9 March<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How much longer will US strikes on Iran continue? Getting a clear answer from the Trump administration has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-332669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}