{"id":71102,"date":"2026-04-07T15:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/retired-military-officers-call-trumps-threats-against-iran-likely-war-crimes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:57:15","slug":"retired-military-officers-call-trumps-threats-against-iran-likely-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/retired-military-officers-call-trumps-threats-against-iran-likely-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired military officers call Trump\u2019s threats against Iran \u2018likely war crimes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alarm among military observers after president says \u2018whole civilization will die tonight\u2019 if Iran ignores demands<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/07\/government-shutdown-congress-house-of-representatives-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-ice-us-politics-latest-updates-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\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 newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s Tuesday morning comments threatening that \u201ca whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again\u201d in Iran have raised alarms among military observers and retired officers, who called them \u201clikely war crimes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to hope that this is bluster, and a negotiating tactic on his part,\u201d said retired admiral Michael Smith, who commanded a carrier strike group in the US navy. \u201cHe must understand that those types of threats themselves are likely war crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/07\/trump-iran-threats-retired-military-war-crimes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alarm among military observers after president says \u2018whole civilization will die tonight\u2019 if Iran ignores demands US politics live \u2013 latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Donald Trump\u2019s Tuesday morning comments threatening that \u201ca whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again\u201d in Iran have raised alarms &#8230; <a title=\"Retired military officers call Trump\u2019s threats against Iran \u2018likely war crimes\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/retired-military-officers-call-trumps-threats-against-iran-likely-war-crimes\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Retired military officers call Trump\u2019s threats against Iran \u2018likely war crimes\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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71102","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\/71102","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=71102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}