{"id":67932,"date":"2026-03-03T15:16:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/they-were-going-to-attack-first-trump-gives-update-on-iran-video\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:16:59","slug":"they-were-going-to-attack-first-trump-gives-update-on-iran-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/they-were-going-to-attack-first-trump-gives-update-on-iran-video\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They were going to attack first&#8217;: Trump gives update on Iran \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has insisted that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/israel\">Israel<\/a> did not put pressure on the US to launch the initial strikes over the weekend, telling reporters that Iran &#8216;was going to attack first&#8217;. The US president also threatened to cut off all trade with Spain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/02\/spain-denies-united-states-permission-military-bases-iran-pedro-sanchez\">after the Nato ally refused Washington permission for two jointly operated bases in southern Spain<\/a> to be used in US strikes on Iran<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/03\/donald-trump-iran-war-powers-kristi-noem-primaries-friedrich-merz-latest-news-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&amp;page=with%3Ablock-69a727778f085ed1e38a4a2e#block-69a727778f085ed1e38a4a2e\"><strong>US politics &#8211; live updates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2026\/mar\/03\/trump-gives-update-on-iran-israel-spain-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has insisted that Israel did not put pressure on the US to launch the initial strikes over the weekend, telling reporters that Iran &#8216;was going to attack first&#8217;. The US president also threatened to cut off all trade with Spain after the Nato ally refused Washington permission for two jointly operated bases in &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;They were going to attack first&#8217;: Trump gives update on Iran \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/they-were-going-to-attack-first-trump-gives-update-on-iran-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8216;They were going to attack first&#8217;: Trump gives update on Iran \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-67932","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\/67932","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=67932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}