{"id":184454,"date":"2026-02-28T12:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/184454\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:36:10","slug":"major-combat-operations-launched-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/184454\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Combat Operations Launched Against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ephp_1-3-980x551.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Satellite image posted to social media purporting to show the remnants of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\u2019s home in Tehran.\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>  <\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, February 28, 2026: At around midnight (03:00EST), Donald Trump announced on social media that the United States military \u201cbegan major military operations in Iran.\u201d Trump added that the objective is \u201cto defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime, a vicious group of very hard terrible people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/civispulse.com\/pulse.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/civis_polls_1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-895\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration argues that Iran continues to rebuild its nuclear capacity ignoring calls to halt them. The U.S. has prepared for a \u201cmassive and ongoing operation,\u201d according to Trump\u2019s online post. Trump has warned that the \u201clives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties, but\u201d he added, \u201cwe\u2019re doing this for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Early indications are that the U.S. is targeting Iranian missile sites and naval fleets.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu also confirmed that Israel has joined in the military operations against Iran. Isreal destroyed the home of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei according to satellite images being shared on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has begun retaliating. Immediately after the U.S. begun combat operations, an Iranian ballistic missile exploded at the U.S. Navy\u2019s 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain. There are no details yet about casualties and damage in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/2027639993414430864\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted<\/a> on social media soon after the attacks began that the attacks are \u201cacts of war unauthorized by Congress.\u201d Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) also posted on social media that \u201cthe Iranian people deserve freedom and dignity,\u201d adding \u201cbut we cannot send our men and women to die at the whim of the President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Cover photo: Satellite image posted to social media purporting to show the remnants of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\u2019s home in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Like Us and Follow Us On Our Social Media!<\/p>\n<p>Visited 10 times, 10 visit(s) today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, February 28, 2026: At around midnight (03:00EST), Donald Trump announced on social media that the United States&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[73771,73772,145,138,140,139,31231,1939],"class_list":{"0":"post-184454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-ali-khamenei","9":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-el-paso","12":"tag-el-paso-headlines","13":"tag-el-paso-news","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}