{"id":68592,"date":"2026-03-10T08:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/trump-says-iran-war-is-very-complete-pretty-much-as-economic-toll-rises-first-thing\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:56:20","slug":"trump-says-iran-war-is-very-complete-pretty-much-as-economic-toll-rises-first-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/trump-says-iran-war-is-very-complete-pretty-much-as-economic-toll-rises-first-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran war is \u2018very complete, pretty much\u2019 as economic toll rises | First Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president delivered a vague and contradictory forecast on the future of the war in Middle East. Plus, how to recognize a psychopath<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\"><strong>Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/09\/us-israel-strikes-iran-supreme-leader\">the war in Iran is \u201cvery complete, pretty much\u201d<\/a>, as the economic toll of the joint US-Israeli operation rises, disrupting global oil trade and threatening to engulf the Middle East in a regional war.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any unintended consequences so far?<\/strong> Among others, it has probably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/10\/north-korea-nuclear-weapons-trump-iran-war\">reinforced North Korea\u2019s decision<\/a> to build a nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do we know yet who bombed the Minab school<\/strong><strong>? <\/strong>Trump blamed Iran without evidence. All the actual evidence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/mar\/10\/iran-minab-school-bombing-shajareh-tayyebeh-primary-what-evidence-us-responsible\">indicates the US was responsible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a developing story. <\/strong>Follow the latest updates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/10\/iran-war-live-updates-iranian-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei-middle-east-tehran-oil-prices-latest-news\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who did X say were the most prolific state actors?<\/strong> Russia, followed by Iran and China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/10\/first-thing-trump-iran-war-very-complete-pretty-much-economic-toll\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president delivered a vague and contradictory forecast on the future of the war in Middle East. Plus, how to recognize a psychopath Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Donald Trump has said the war in Iran is \u201cvery complete, pretty much\u201d, as the economic toll of the &#8230; <a title=\"Trump says Iran war is \u2018very complete, pretty much\u2019 as economic toll rises | First Thing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/trump-says-iran-war-is-very-complete-pretty-much-as-economic-toll-rises-first-thing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump says Iran war is \u2018very complete, pretty much\u2019 as economic toll rises | First Thing\">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-68592","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\/68592","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=68592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}