{"id":564458,"date":"2026-04-04T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564458\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:58:11","slug":"schmidt-urges-time-to-successfully-finish-war-in-iran-however-we-got-here-we-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564458\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmidt urges time to successfully finish war in Iran: \u2018However we got here, we are here\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kansas Congressman Derek Schmidt. Official portrait.<\/p>\n

The war involving the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other is now five weeks old.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has said the war could end within the next month, and he has adjusted the stated conflict\u2019s goals from ending Iran\u2019s nuclear capability to oil access to Iran\u2019s treatment of protesters to regime change. During his regular visit on KVOE\u2019s Morning Show, Kansas Second District Congressman Derek Schmidt said \u201chowever we got here, we are here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The president\u2019s position changes on Iran\u2019s nuclear capacity \u2014 from obliterated to near weapon-grade-ready \u2014 have been scrutinized and criticized since the war started at the end of February. <\/p>\n

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Schmidt says Iran has consistently lied to world investigators about the extent of its nuclear program and its intentions for nuclear energy. Schmidt also says Iran ended negotiations and abilities to monitor its nuclear program.<\/p>\n

Iran has also largely to almost-completely blocked the Strait of Hormuz, putting pressure on oil and fertilizer supplies. Gas prices are still below $3.50 a gallon on average in Emporia, but nationally they are now above $4 a gallon while diesel is above $5 a gallon nationally. Urea, a key fertilizer made largely in the Middle East, now ranges between $700-$900 a ton, up 50-65 percent since the war started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas Congressman Derek Schmidt. Official portrait. The war involving the United States and Israel on one side and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-564458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564458","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=564458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}