{"id":513848,"date":"2026-03-09T23:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/513848\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T23:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:02:12","slug":"iran-war-news-and-live-updates-mojtaba-khamenei-chosen-as-next-supreme-leader-trump-says-war-is-very-complete-pretty-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/513848\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war news and live updates: Mojtaba Khamenei chosen as next supreme leader; Trump says war is &#8216;very complete, pretty much&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">President Donald Trump said he believes the war with Iran is &#8220;going to be ended soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;And if it starts up again, they&#8217;ll be, they&#8217;ll be hit even harder,&#8221; he said of Iran during a press briefing on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Asked by a reporter what he means by &#8220;soon&#8221; and if he&#8217;s thinking it will be over this week, he said, &#8220;No, but soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Trump was asked again by a reporter on the timeline of the Iran operation and how long should Americans expect, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; on Sunday that &#8220;this is only just the beginning&#8221; of the U.S. campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Trump said it&#8217;s the &#8220;beginning of building a new country&#8221; and that Iran has no navy or air force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">&#8220;We could call it a tremendous success right now, as we leave here, I could call it, or we could go further, and we&#8217;re going to go further,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said he believes the war with Iran is &#8220;going to be ended soon.&#8221; &#8220;And if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[232737,4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-513848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-232737","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\/513848","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=513848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}