{"id":68488,"date":"2026-03-09T09:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/pete-hegseth-says-there-will-be-more-casualties-in-us-war-with-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:05:26","slug":"pete-hegseth-says-there-will-be-more-casualties-in-us-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/pete-hegseth-says-there-will-be-more-casualties-in-us-war-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth says \u2018there will be more casualties\u2019 in US war with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comments from defense secretary come as number of US service members killed in conflict has climbed to seven<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, has said \u201cthere will be more casualties\u201d in the US military from the Trump administration\u2019s war in Iran after officials confirmed on Sunday that the number of US service members killed had <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CENTCOM\/status\/2030727586226360485?s=20\">climbed to seven<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth made the statement during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hegseth-us-strikes-iran-trump-plans-60-minutes-transcript\/\">an appearance<\/a> Sunday night on CBS\u2019s 60 Minutes, during which he portrayed Donald Trump\u2019s decision for the US to join Israeli attacks on the Middle East country as essential \u201cto advance American interests, and protect American lives\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/09\/pete-hegseth-us-war-with-iran-casualties\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments from defense secretary come as number of US service members killed in conflict has climbed to seven Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, has said \u201cthere will be more casualties\u201d in the US military from the Trump administration\u2019s war &#8230; <a title=\"Pete Hegseth says \u2018there will be more casualties\u2019 in US war with Iran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/pete-hegseth-says-there-will-be-more-casualties-in-us-war-with-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pete Hegseth says \u2018there will be more casualties\u2019 in US war with Iran\">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-68488","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\/68488","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=68488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}