{"id":174461,"date":"2026-03-02T01:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174461\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:16:22","slug":"u-s-strikes-on-iran-as-trump-monitored-from-mar-a-lago-leavitt-says-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174461\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. strikes on Iran as Trump monitored from Mar-a-Lago, Leavitt says \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump was at Mar-a-Lago when the U.S. bombed Iran in a joint operation with Israel, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cTrump monitored the situation overnight at Mar-a-Lago alongside members of his national security team. The president spoke by phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PressSec\/status\/2027777973319766251\" rel=\"nofollow\">post on X<\/a>, she also said Secretary of State Marco Rubio reached out to congressional leaders ahead of the military operation.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Trump monitored the situation overnight at Mar a Lago alongside members of his national security team. The President spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu by phone. <\/p>\n<p>Prior to the attacks, Secretary Rubio called all members of the gang of eight to provide congressional\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec\/status\/2027777973319766251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore the strikes, Secretary Rubio called every member of the so-called \u2018Gang of Eight\u2019 to notify Congress, and he was able to reach and brief seven of the eight members,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian government responded almost immediately. The Revolutionary Guard said it launched drones and missiles at Israel, and also carried out attacks on U.S. military installations in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>So far, no U.S. citizen deaths have been reported from Iran\u2019s retaliatory strikes on those military facilities, two officials told NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>This story was translated from Spanish with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool. An NBC 6 editor reviewed the translation.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump was at Mar-a-Lago when the U.S. bombed Iran in a joint operation with Israel, White&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,9098,9097],"class_list":{"0":"post-174461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-mar-a-lago","12":"tag-palm-beach"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}