{"id":69513,"date":"2026-03-20T06:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/trump-says-hes-not-putting-us-troops-on-the-ground-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T06:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:55:02","slug":"trump-says-hes-not-putting-us-troops-on-the-ground-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/trump-says-hes-not-putting-us-troops-on-the-ground-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says He&#8217;s Not Putting US Troops on the Ground in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Iran war set to enter its fourth week, President Donald Trump was pressed on whether he plans to send U.S. ground troops to Iran saying, \u201cNo, I&#8217;m not putting troops anywhere. If I were, I certainly wouldn\u2019t tell you, but I\u2019m not putting troops.\u201d It comes even as the United States is deploying thousands of U.S. Marines to the region. NBC\u2019s Peter Alexander reports and moderator of Meet the Press Kristen Welker joins TODAY with analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Iran war set to enter its fourth week, President Donald Trump was pressed on whether he plans to send U.S. ground troops to Iran saying, \u201cNo, I&#8217;m not putting troops anywhere. If I were, I certainly wouldn\u2019t tell you, but I\u2019m not putting troops.\u201d It comes even as the United States is deploying &#8230; <a title=\"Trump Says He&#8217;s Not Putting US Troops on the Ground in Iran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/trump-says-hes-not-putting-us-troops-on-the-ground-in-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump Says He&#8217;s Not Putting US Troops on the Ground in 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-69513","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\/69513","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=69513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}