{"id":639125,"date":"2026-10-07T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/639125\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:32:08","slug":"pullout-of-b-1-bombers-shows-how-an-outgunned-iran-is-keeping-the-u-s-on-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/639125\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullout of B-1 bombers shows how an outgunned Iran is keeping the U.S. on edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"VZ7WEBYBPFDW7JHZUARJ3W3RM4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">LONDON \u2014 In a speech to U.S. forces last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth echoed President Donald Trump\u2019s triumphant descriptions of Iran as a vanquished foe. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"BPFI33CZ4VCI5JBSSPGS7OZHBI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The United States has \u201cdestroyed\u201d Iran\u2019s navy, air force, leadership and \u201centire defense base,\u201d Hegseth said, crippling Tehran\u2019s conventional capabilities and leaving its shattered \u201cnuclear ambitions laid bare for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 In a speech to U.S. forces last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth echoed President Donald Trump\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-639125","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\/639125","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=639125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}