{"id":70664,"date":"2026-04-02T06:31:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/first-thing-trump-claims-iran-war-is-nearing-completion-in-address-to-nation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:31:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:31:34","slug":"first-thing-trump-claims-iran-war-is-nearing-completion-in-address-to-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/first-thing-trump-claims-iran-war-is-nearing-completion-in-address-to-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: Trump claims Iran war is \u2018nearing completion\u2019 in address to nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats criticize speech as doing little to answer Americans\u2019 \u2018most basic questions\u2019. Plus, how rap lyrics were used to help sentence a man to death<\/p>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/01\/trump-iran-war-address-white-house\">declared the month-long US-Israeli war against Iran<\/a> a success \u201cnearing completion\u201d in his prime time address to the nation on Wednesday evening \u2013 despite the conflict wreaking global economic chaos, damaging transatlantic alliances and hitting his approval ratings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the significance of Trump\u2019s comments on HEU?<\/strong> The apparent decision to leave it appears to conflict with his assertions that a key war aim was to ensure Iran could never make a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow our liveblog<\/strong> for the <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\">latest updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has Houston said about the rocket\u2019s deployment?<\/strong> Flight controllers confirmed that all four solar arrays, which will provide the spacecraft with continuous electrical power throughout its lunar journey, were deployed successfully.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/02\/first-thing-trump-claims-iran-war-is-nearing-completion-in-address-to-nation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats criticize speech as doing little to answer Americans\u2019 \u2018most basic questions\u2019. Plus, how rap lyrics were used to help sentence a man to death Good morning. Donald Trump declared the month-long US-Israeli war against Iran a success \u201cnearing completion\u201d in his prime time address to the nation on Wednesday evening \u2013 despite the conflict &#8230; <a title=\"First Thing: Trump claims Iran war is \u2018nearing completion\u2019 in address to nation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/first-thing-trump-claims-iran-war-is-nearing-completion-in-address-to-nation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Thing: Trump claims Iran war is \u2018nearing completion\u2019 in address to nation\">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-70664","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\/70664","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=70664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}