{"id":67769,"date":"2026-03-02T15:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/trump-says-iran-war-to-last-four-to-five-weeks-but-could-go-far-longer\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:16:39","slug":"trump-says-iran-war-to-last-four-to-five-weeks-but-could-go-far-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/trump-says-iran-war-to-last-four-to-five-weeks-but-could-go-far-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran war to last four to five weeks but could go \u2018far longer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President says he ordered attacks to thwart Tehran nuclear aims \u2013 and abruptly pivots to talk up White House ballroom<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/02\/us-israel-war-iran-live-updates-attacks-strikes-tehran-lebanon-beirut-hezbollah-dubai-latest-news\">US-Israel war on Iran \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/white-house-event\/president-trump-remarks-at-medal-of-honor-ceremony\/674407\">laid out four goals<\/a> in Iran and said the US campaign had been projected to last four to five weeks but could \u201cgo far longer than that\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday the US president offered his most extensive comments yet about the war, going beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/28\/trump-iran-analysis-us-foreign-policy-george-bush\">two video messages<\/a> and a series of brief phone interviews with reporters that offered sometimes conflicting objectives.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/02\/trump-war-iran\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President says he ordered attacks to thwart Tehran nuclear aims \u2013 and abruptly pivots to talk up White House ballroom US-Israel war on Iran \u2013 live updates Donald Trump has laid out four goals in Iran and said the US campaign had been projected to last four to five weeks but could \u201cgo far longer &#8230; <a title=\"Trump says Iran war to last four to five weeks but could go \u2018far longer\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/trump-says-iran-war-to-last-four-to-five-weeks-but-could-go-far-longer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump says Iran war to last four to five weeks but could go \u2018far longer\u2019\">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-67769","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\/67769","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=67769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}