{"id":68144,"date":"2026-03-05T07:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/trump-defends-decision-to-strike-iran-as-new-details-emerge\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:57:23","slug":"trump-defends-decision-to-strike-iran-as-new-details-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/trump-defends-decision-to-strike-iran-as-new-details-emerge\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Defends Decision to Strike Iran as New Details Emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As President Donald Trump defends his decision to strike Iran, new NBC News polling shows a majority of voters disapprove of the President\u2019s handling of the situation in Iran. It comes as a senior U.S. official confirms details of a phone call between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the strikes. NBC\u2019s Garrett Haake reports for TODAY from the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Donald Trump defends his decision to strike Iran, new NBC News polling shows a majority of voters disapprove of the President\u2019s handling of the situation in Iran. It comes as a senior U.S. official confirms details of a phone call between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the strikes. NBC\u2019s Garrett &#8230; <a title=\"Trump Defends Decision to Strike Iran as New Details Emerge\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/trump-defends-decision-to-strike-iran-as-new-details-emerge\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump Defends Decision to Strike Iran as New Details Emerge\">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-68144","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\/68144","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=68144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}