{"id":70650,"date":"2026-04-01T22:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/we-have-all-the-cards-trump-says-us-war-on-iran-nearing-completion\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:56:28","slug":"we-have-all-the-cards-trump-says-us-war-on-iran-nearing-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/we-have-all-the-cards-trump-says-us-war-on-iran-nearing-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We have all the cards\u2019: Trump says US war on Iran \u2018nearing completion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President says \u2018little journey\u2019 to Iran close to achieving US aims but offers few details on plan to wind down conflict<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/02\/middle-east-crisis-live-trump-prime-time-address-white-house-iran-war-israel-strait-hormuz#top-of-blog\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump used a primetime address to the nation on Wednesday evening to declare the month-long war in Iran a success \u201cnearing completion\u201d, despite a spiraling conflict that has caused economic turmoil across the globe, fractured transatlantic alliances and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/01\/politics\/cnn-poll-trump-approval-rating-economy\">eroded<\/a> the president\u2019s approval ratings.<\/p>\n<p>In remarks from the White House, Trump argued that the US\u2019s \u201clittle journey\u201d to Iran had nearly accomplished \u201call of America\u2019s military objectives\u201d, but offered little clarity on how he planned to wind down the conflict over the next \u201ctwo to three weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/01\/trump-iran-war-address-white-house\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President says \u2018little journey\u2019 to Iran close to achieving US aims but offers few details on plan to wind down conflict Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates Donald Trump used a primetime address to the nation on Wednesday evening to declare the month-long war in Iran a success \u201cnearing completion\u201d, despite a spiraling conflict that &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018We have all the cards\u2019: Trump says US war on Iran \u2018nearing completion\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/we-have-all-the-cards-trump-says-us-war-on-iran-nearing-completion\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018We have all the cards\u2019: Trump says US war on Iran \u2018nearing completion\u2019\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70650","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=70650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}