{"id":69231,"date":"2026-03-17T16:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/iran-may-not-stop-fighting-even-as-trump-says-u-s-could-leave-iran-soon-fmr-cia-analyst\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:54:50","slug":"iran-may-not-stop-fighting-even-as-trump-says-u-s-could-leave-iran-soon-fmr-cia-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/iran-may-not-stop-fighting-even-as-trump-says-u-s-could-leave-iran-soon-fmr-cia-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran may not \u2018stop fighting\u2019 even as Trump says U.S. could leave Iran soon: Fmr. CIA analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump backtracks his demands that NATO countries help secure the Strait of Hormuz, saying the United States doesn\u2019t need help from anyone. NBC News correspondents Monica Alba, Courtney Kube and Raf Sanchez report on the latest in the war. Ken Pollack, vice president for policy at the Middle East Institute analyzes who\u2019s in charge in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump backtracks his demands that NATO countries help secure the Strait of Hormuz, saying the United States doesn\u2019t need help from anyone. NBC News correspondents Monica Alba, Courtney Kube and Raf Sanchez report on the latest in the war. Ken Pollack, vice president for policy at the Middle East Institute analyzes who\u2019s in charge &#8230; <a title=\"Iran may not \u2018stop fighting\u2019 even as Trump says U.S. could leave Iran soon: Fmr. CIA analyst\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/iran-may-not-stop-fighting-even-as-trump-says-u-s-could-leave-iran-soon-fmr-cia-analyst\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Iran may not \u2018stop fighting\u2019 even as Trump says U.S. could leave Iran soon: Fmr. CIA analyst\">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-69231","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\/69231","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=69231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}