{"id":68408,"date":"2026-03-07T21:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/trump-says-us-israel-shattered-iranian-military-capabilities-presses-leaders-to-surrender-cry-uncle\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T21:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:55:47","slug":"trump-says-us-israel-shattered-iranian-military-capabilities-presses-leaders-to-surrender-cry-uncle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/trump-says-us-israel-shattered-iranian-military-capabilities-presses-leaders-to-surrender-cry-uncle\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US, Israel shattered Iranian military capabilities, presses leaders to surrender: &#8216;Cry uncle&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Saturday said that U.S. and Israeli forces have &#8220;wiped out&#8221; Iran\u2019s navy, air force and much of its missile capability in just one week of war, declaring the regime\u2019s military &#8220;almost non-existent&#8221; as he continues to press Tehran to surrender for &#8220;a much safer world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, the president said the sweeping offensive has exceeded expectations, noting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/conflicts\/iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran&#8217;s navy<\/a> &#8220;is now at the bottom of the sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/operation-epic-fury-destroys-irans-navy-cuts-missile-attacks-90-ongoing-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wiped out their Navy<\/a> \u2014 44 ships. We&#8217;ve wiped out their air force \u2014 every plane. We&#8217;ve wiped out most of their missiles \u2014 you see their missiles aren&#8217;t coming much anymore,&#8221; Trump said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added military strikes have hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/number-iranian-ballistic-missiles-fired-plunges-since-start-operation-epic-fury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">missile manufacturing areas<\/a> &#8220;very hard,&#8221; and the country&#8217;s drone capacity is &#8220;way down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/here-come-big-bombs-us-escalates-strikes-irans-huge-military-arsenal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HERE COME THE BIG BOMBS AS US ESCALATES STRIKES ON IRAN&#8217;S HUGE MILITARY ARSENAL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The president said he is seeking an &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/defense\/wars\/war-with-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unconditional surrender<\/a>&#8221; from Iran, explaining the term means &#8220;they cry uncle, or when they can&#8217;t fight any longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Or there&#8217;s nobody around to cry uncle to, because we wiped out their leadership numerous times already,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s if they surrender, or if there is nobody around to surrender, but they&#8217;re rendered useless in terms of military [capabilities].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Discussing atrocities allegedly carried out by the regime, Trump said the war was 47 years coming and &#8220;no president had the guts to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/gop-senators-says-trumps-strikes-significantly-degraded-iran-emphasize-attacks-not-forever-wars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>GOP SENATORS SAYS TRUMP&#8217;S STRIKES &#8216;SIGNIFICANTLY DEGRADED&#8217; IRAN BUT EMPHASIZE ATTACKS NOT &#8216;FOREVER WARS&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are about the most evil people ever on Earth,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They cut babies&#8217; heads off. They chop women in half. Take a look at October 7th, take a look at what they&#8217;ve done over the last 47 years. \u2026 When this ends, we&#8217;re going to have a much safer world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rising gas prices<\/a> on the home front, Trump said he is not worried.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/trump-first-lady-attend-dignified-transfer-6-us-troops-killed-kuwait\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP AND FIRST LADY ATTEND DIGNIFIED TRANSFER FOR 6 US TROOPS KILLED IN KUWAIT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ll come down very fast, and we will have gotten rid of a major, major cancer on the face of the earth,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;We&#8217;ll have taken out a cancer. \u2026 What we&#8217;re doing is a great thing, not only for our country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not only for Israel<\/a>, not only for the Middle East, but for the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if ground troops will be sent to secure the enriched uranium at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/foreign-policy\/nuclear-proliferation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iranian nuclear sites<\/a> targeted by joint forces, though the president described the attacks as &#8220;a total obliteration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They haven&#8217;t been able to get to it, and at some point, maybe we will be,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It would be a great thing, but right now, we&#8217;re just decimating them. We haven&#8217;t gone after it, but [it&#8217;s] something we could do later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump concluded by calling the war &#8220;a minor excursion&#8221; that in the end will make the world a safer place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When this ends, we&#8217;re going to have a much safer world, you know, so, you know, this is a minor excursion,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And we will have gotten rid of a lot of sick and demented people, the leadership. So we got rid of one leadership. We got rid of the second level of leadership. Now they&#8217;re on that third or fourth level of leadership. And they have leaders right now that nobody even knows who they are.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Saturday said that U.S. and Israeli forces have &#8220;wiped out&#8221; Iran\u2019s navy, air force and much of its missile capability in just one week of war, declaring the regime\u2019s military &#8220;almost non-existent&#8221; as he continues to press Tehran to surrender for &#8220;a much safer world.&#8221; Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force &#8230; <a title=\"Trump says US, Israel shattered Iranian military capabilities, presses leaders to surrender: &#8216;Cry uncle&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/trump-says-us-israel-shattered-iranian-military-capabilities-presses-leaders-to-surrender-cry-uncle\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump says US, Israel shattered Iranian military capabilities, presses leaders to surrender: &#8216;Cry uncle&#8217;\">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-68408","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\/68408","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=68408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}