Plans under discussion include a \u201cshort and powerful\u201d wave of strikes on Iranian infrastructure, a possible operation to take control of parts of the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> to restore shipping, and even a special forces mission to secure Iran<\/a>\u2019s enriched uranium stockpile, Axios reported.<\/p>\n Earlier, Trump said the US had \u201calready won\u201d the war in Iran<\/a> even as he continued to pressure Tehran<\/a> to make a deal.<\/p>\n During an interview with Newsmax\u2019s Greta Van Susteren, the president declared that the US had achieved victory, but said he wanted to win by a \u201cbigger margin\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve already won, but I want to win by a bigger margin,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we have. We have destroyed their navy, destroyed their air force, destroyed all of their \u2014 if you look at their anti-aircraft equipment, their radar equipment, their leadership, their leadership is destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite his insistence that Iran<\/a> is already beaten, the president is continuing his blockade of the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>. <\/p>\n Briefing: What we know on the 63rd day of US-Israel war on IranIranian president Masoud Pezeshkian calls the US \u201csiege\u201d of Iranian ports \u201cintolerable\u201d President Donald Trump says the US \u201cmight need\u201d to restart the war and that \u201cnobody knows what the talks are except myself and a couple of other people\u201d UN watchdog says Iran has enough enriched uranium for up to 10 nuclear bombs if weaponised Senior Democrat accuses Pete Hegseth of misleading Donald Trump on the Iran war Bahrain revokes citizenship of dozens accused of pro-Iran sympathies Read more<\/p>\n Maroosha Muzaffar1 May 2026 04:04<\/p>\n <\/a>Trump says U.S. has ‘already won’ in Iran but he wants to win by a ‘bigger margin’<\/p>\n On Thursday, President Donald Trump told Newsmax\u2019s Greta Van Susteren<\/a> that the U.S. has \u201calready won\u201d the war in Iran, but that he wants to continue the conflict to win by a \u201cbigger margin.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve already won, but I want to win by a bigger margin,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we have. We have destroyed their navy, destroyed their air force, destroyed all of their \u2014 if you look at their anti-aircraft equipment, their radar equipment, their leadership, their leadership is destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump continued, insisting that U.S. had \u201cdestroyed everything.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf we leave right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild if they ever could rebuild,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it\u2019s actually not good enough. We have to have guarantee they will never have a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n Maroosha Muzaffar1 May 2026 06:45<\/p>\n <\/a>Bahrain\u2019s decision to strip dozens of citizenship for \u2018sympathising with Iran\u2019 will set precedent, rights group warns<\/p>\n Bahrain\u2019s decision to<\/a> strip dozens of its nationals of citizenship after accusing them of sympathising with Iran during the ongoing Middle East war will leave Shia Muslims with Iranian heritage at risk, a human rights group has warned.<\/p>\n Bahrain\u2019s<\/a> Interior Ministry announced on social media this week the 69 people whose citizenship have been revoked included accused individuals and their family members \u2013 an act that critics termed as \u201ccollective punishment\u201d. They affected people are all of non-Bahraini origin.<\/p>\n Maroosha Muzaffar1 May 2026 06:30<\/p>\n <\/a>Trump says U.S. has ‘already won’ the war in Iran but he wants to win by a ‘bigger margin’Trump says U.S. has ‘already won’ the war in Iran but he wants to win by a ‘bigger margin’<\/p>\n Maroosha Muzaffar1 May 2026 06:15<\/p>\n <\/a>Iran is reportedly using the ceasefire to dig up its missiles and munitions<\/p>\n Iran is reportedly using the ceasefire to excavate its weapons and munitions from beneath the rubble of buildings destroyed by U.S. bombings.<\/p>\n The report comes from an unnamed U.S. official and two other people familiar with the matter who spoke to NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n Earlier in the month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon \u201cknows\u201d that Tehran is trying to dig up its buried munitions.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile [the Iranian military is] digging out \u2014 which is exactly what you\u2019re doing, digging out of bombed-out and devastated facilities \u2014 we are only getting stronger,\u201d Hegseth said during an April 16 press briefing. \u201cYou are digging out your remaining launchers and missiles with no ability to replace them.\u201d<\/p>\n Maroosha Muzaffar1 May 2026 06:00<\/p>\n <\/a>Trump administration claims hostilities ‘terminated’ ahead of war powers deadline<\/p>\n A ceasefire between the United States and Iran that began in early April has effectively \u201cterminated\u201d hostilities for the purposes of an upcoming war powers deadline in Congress, a senior official from the Donald Trump administration said on Thursday.<\/p>\n Trump was facing a Friday deadline to either end the conflict or seek approval from US Congress to continue it, though the date was expected to pass without changing the course of the war.<\/p>\n \u201cFor war powers resolution purposes, the hostilities that began on Saturday, February 28, have terminated,\u201d the official said, explaining the administration\u2019s position, and noting that there has been no exchange of fire between US forces and Iran since the fragile ceasefire began more than three weeks ago. <\/p>\n Maroosha Muzaffar1 May 2026 06:00<\/p>\n <\/a>Senator Elizabeth Warren: ‘We\u2019re spending $1 billion in taxpayer funds a day’ on Iran war<\/p>\n Senator Elizabeth Warren criticized the continuing cost of the war in Iran on Thursday.<\/p>\n \u201c13 Americans have been killed, and hundreds more are injured. We\u2019re spending $1 billion in taxpayer funds a day. Gas is more than $4 per gallon. This is the cost of Trump’s war,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n President Donald Trump insisted on Wednesday that the price of gas will \u201cdrop like a rock\u201d once the war in Iran concludes.<\/p>\n “The gas will go down. As soon as the war is over, it’ll drop like a rock,\u201d he said. \u201cThere’s so much of it. It’s all over the place, sitting all over the oceans of the world.”<\/p>\n Maroosha Muzaffar1 May 2026 05:46<\/p>\n <\/a>Hegseth grilled in Congress over Iran war<\/p>\n Pete Hegseth faced tough questioning in Congress over how the Iran war is being handled, including costs, civilian deaths, and military resources<\/p>\n He argued that the legal 60-day war limit doesn\u2019t apply right now, saying: \u201cWe are in a cease fire right now, which our understanding means the 60-day clock pauses or stops in a ceasefire.\u201d <\/p>\n But Democratic senator Tim Kaine pushed back, saying: \u201cI do not believe the statute would support that.\u201d<\/p>\n Lawmakers raised concerns about civilian casualties after strikes hit places like schools, asking why protections were weakened.<\/p>\n Hegseth said the military has an \u201cironclad commitment\u201d to avoid civilian deaths.<\/p>\n Maroosha Muzaffar1 May 2026 05:30<\/p>\n <\/a>Iranian president says US blockade of ports \u2018doomed to fail\u2019<\/p>\n Masoud Pezeshkian said a US naval blockade on Iranian ports would deepen disruptions in the Gulf while failing to achieve its aims.<\/p>\n \u201cAny attempt to impose a maritime blockade or restrictions is contrary to international law\u2026 and is doomed to fail,\u201d Pezeshkian said in a statement. <\/p>\n Maroosha Muzaffar1 May 2026 05:15<\/p>\n <\/a>Iran has enough enriched uranium for 10 nuclear bombs, says United Nations watchdog<\/p>\n The majority of Iran\u2019s highly enriched uranium <\/a>is believed to remain at its Isfahan nuclear complex, a site that has endured airstrikes last year and further attacks during this year’s US-Israeli conflict,<\/a> according to the head of the UN nuclear agency.<\/p>\n Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), stated in an interview on Tuesday that the agency possesses satellite images illustrating the impact of the recent U.S.-Israeli airstrikes against Iran,<\/a> and that “we continue to get information.” IAEA inspections at Isfahan<\/a> ceased in June 2025, when Israel initiated a 12-day war that saw the United States bomb three Iranian nuclear sites.<\/p>\n This stockpile could potentially enable Iran to construct as many as 10 nuclear bombs, should it choose to weaponize its program, Grossi told The Associated Press last year.<\/p>\n Maroosha Muzaffar1 May 2026 04:56<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump says US has \u2018already won\u2019 the war in Iran but he wants to win by a \u2018bigger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,293,267616,2420,451,308,3,1572,688,111,48369,87292,452,453,267615,24,5832],"class_list":["post-616688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-color-image","tag-dirksen-senate-office-building","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-horizontal","tag-news","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-photography","tag-politics","tag-politics-and-government","tag-secretary-of-defense","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-us-senate-armed-services-committee","tag-usa","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616688","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=616688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Pete](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2273284277.jpg\")
Pete Hegseth testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on 30 April 2026 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC (Getty)<\/p>\n