Trump also questions whether Iran\u2019s new supreme leader \u2018is even alive\u2019 while deflating hopes of a deal with Tehran to end conflict \u2013 key US politics stories from 14 March 2026 at a glance<\/p>\n
Donald Trump says US strikes have \u201ctotally demolished\u201d much of Iran\u2019s Kharg Island oil export hub and threatened that \u201cwe may hit it a few more times just for fun<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n In comments to NBC News, the president also questioned, without attribution, whether Iran\u2019s new supreme leader \u201cis even alive\u201d, while deflating hopes of a deal with Tehran to end the conflict.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trump also questions whether Iran\u2019s new supreme leader \u2018is even alive\u2019 while deflating hopes of a deal with Tehran to end conflict \u2013 key US politics stories from 14 March 2026 at a glance Donald Trump says US strikes have \u201ctotally demolished\u201d much of Iran\u2019s Kharg Island oil export hub and threatened that \u201cwe may … 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-68983","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\/68983","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=68983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}