{"id":69426,"date":"2026-03-19T10:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/no-timeframe-for-ending-us-war-against-iran-says-pete-hegseth\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:55:19","slug":"no-timeframe-for-ending-us-war-against-iran-says-pete-hegseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/no-timeframe-for-ending-us-war-against-iran-says-pete-hegseth\/","title":{"rendered":"No timeframe for ending US war against Iran, says Pete Hegseth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US defense secretary suggests Thursday will be \u2018largest strike package yet \u2026 death and destruction from above\u2019 <\/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>The US defense secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/pete-hegseth\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>, said on Thursday there is no \u201ctimeframe\u201d for ending the US war against Iran and did not deny reports that the Pentagon could seek an extra $200bn in taxpayer funding.<\/p>\n<p>The military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">US-Israeli offensive<\/a> began three weeks ago and continues to widen. Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/19\/iran-war-trump-south-pars-threat-if-tehran-strikes-qatar\">threatened on Wednesday<\/a> to \u201cmassively blow up\u201d the world\u2019s biggest gasfield after Israeli strikes on the Iranian site prompted Tehran to escalate strikes on oil and gas facilities around the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/19\/pete-hegseth-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US defense secretary suggests Thursday will be \u2018largest strike package yet \u2026 death and destruction from above\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said on Thursday there is no \u201ctimeframe\u201d for ending the US war against Iran and did not &#8230; <a title=\"No timeframe for ending US war against Iran, says Pete Hegseth\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/no-timeframe-for-ending-us-war-against-iran-says-pete-hegseth\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about No timeframe for ending US war against Iran, says Pete Hegseth\">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-69426","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\/69426","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=69426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}