{"id":67592,"date":"2026-02-28T04:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/lay-down-your-weapons-trump-warns-irans-armed-forces-as-us-launches-military-operation-video\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:59:45","slug":"lay-down-your-weapons-trump-warns-irans-armed-forces-as-us-launches-military-operation-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/lay-down-your-weapons-trump-warns-irans-armed-forces-as-us-launches-military-operation-video\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lay down your weapons&#8217;: Trump warns Iran&#8217;s armed forces as US launches military operation \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump said the US had begun &#8216;major combat operations&#8217; in Iran, warning there may be US casualties. The strikes, which the US president said were aimed at destroying Iranian missiles and annihilating its navy, follow repeated US-Israeli warnings that they would strike Iran again if it pressed ahead with its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Trump told the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Iran&#8217;s armed forces, to lay down their weapons, promising that they would be granted immunity. The other option, according to Trump, is &#8216;certain death&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/feb\/28\/israel-attacks-iran-as-blasts-heard-in-tehran-live-updates\">US-Israeli attack on Iran \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/28\/us-israel-launch-strikes-attack-iran-what-we-know-so-far-latest\">US and Israel strikes on Iran \u2013 what we know so far<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/28\/israel-launches-attack-on-iran-as-explosions-heard-in-tehran\">Full report<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2026\/feb\/28\/lay-down-weapons-trump-warns-iran-armed-forces-us-launches-military-operation-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump said the US had begun &#8216;major combat operations&#8217; in Iran, warning there may be US casualties. The strikes, which the US president said were aimed at destroying Iranian missiles and annihilating its navy, follow repeated US-Israeli warnings that they would strike Iran again if it pressed ahead with its nuclear and ballistic missile &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;Lay down your weapons&#8217;: Trump warns Iran&#8217;s armed forces as US launches military operation \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/lay-down-your-weapons-trump-warns-irans-armed-forces-as-us-launches-military-operation-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8216;Lay down your weapons&#8217;: Trump warns Iran&#8217;s armed forces as US launches military operation \u2013 video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}