{"id":499095,"date":"2026-03-02T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/499095\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:54:14","slug":"iran-war-spreads-as-u-s-jets-crash-and-israel-trades-fire-with-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/499095\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war spreads as U.S. jets crash and Israel trades fire with Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1f\">We just reached a former commander for Iran&#8217;s powerful Revolutionary Guard who is in Tehran and still has close links to the government. As the war spreads across the region he warns there will be more strikes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1i\">\u201cI know that we are, at this time, ready for more attacks by missiles and drone against the bases of Israel and United States\u201d Hossein Kanani Moghadam told NBC News by video call. \u201cWe have a very good situation and equipment and logistic at this time for the defense of the Iran,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1l\">Despite the onslaught Iran is undergoing, he insists, \u201cAt this time everything is stable\u2026 and we haven\u2019t had, this time, any security problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1o\">We asked him about the prospect of replacing Iran\u2019s supreme leader, with the IRGC likely to play an influential role moving forward. \u201cIt is very easy for the country to select the new supreme leader,\u201d he says, because there are many &#8220;suitable&#8221; candidates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1r\">He rejects President Trump\u2019s assertion that many who might have replaced Ayatollah\u00a0Khamenei are also dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1u\">\u201cThis is a propaganda of Trump,&#8221; he said. &#8220;No, this is not right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We just reached a former commander for Iran&#8217;s powerful Revolutionary Guard who is in Tehran and still has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-499095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}