{"id":71017,"date":"2026-04-06T17:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/there-are-no-winners-if-trump-strikes-irans-civilian-infrastructure-former-defense-secretary\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:55:01","slug":"there-are-no-winners-if-trump-strikes-irans-civilian-infrastructure-former-defense-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/there-are-no-winners-if-trump-strikes-irans-civilian-infrastructure-former-defense-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"There are no \u2018winners\u2019 if Trump strikes Iran\u2019s civilian infrastructure: Former defense secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump doubles down on his threat to strike Iran\u2019s civilian infrastructure if it doesn\u2019t reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday deadline. NBC News correspondents Julie Tsirkin, Gordon Lubold, Keir Simmons and Christine Romans explain where things stand in the war with Iran. NBC News military analyst retired Col. Steve Warren and former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta discuss where the Trump administration\u2019s military objectives stand in the war that is now in its sixth week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump doubles down on his threat to strike Iran\u2019s civilian infrastructure if it doesn\u2019t reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday deadline. NBC News correspondents Julie Tsirkin, Gordon Lubold, Keir Simmons and Christine Romans explain where things stand in the war with Iran. NBC News military analyst retired Col. Steve Warren and former &#8230; <a title=\"There are no \u2018winners\u2019 if Trump strikes Iran\u2019s civilian infrastructure: Former defense secretary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/there-are-no-winners-if-trump-strikes-irans-civilian-infrastructure-former-defense-secretary\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about There are no \u2018winners\u2019 if Trump strikes Iran\u2019s civilian infrastructure: Former defense secretary\">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-71017","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\/71017","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=71017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}