{"id":6138,"date":"2026-03-24T16:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=6138"},"modified":"2026-03-29T01:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T20:13:11","slug":"defense-secretary-hegseth-was-among-the-first-for-iran-war-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=6138","title":{"rendered":"Defense Secretary Hegseth was among the first for Iran war : Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Washington. Donald Trump has suggested that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was among the first to support taking action against Iran, citing concerns over nuclear capability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">As the situation enters its fourth week, there are still conflicting accounts within the administration about how decisions were made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Some officials say Israel was already preparing its own move, others point to concerns around Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Trump also said Iran\u2019s response was unexpected, though reports suggest there may have been prior internal warnings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The situation has led to serious consequences and a wider regional crisis. Trump has now extended his deadline by five days, adding to the uncertainty about what comes next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">With tensions continuing, questions remain about how things escalated \u2014 and where they go from here.<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_260324_160834_465.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington. Donald Trump has suggested that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was among the first to support taking action against Iran, citing concerns over nuclear capability. As the situation enters its fourth week, there are still conflicting accounts within the administration about how decisions were made. Some officials say Israel was already preparing its own move, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FB_IMG_1774347605466.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6140,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138\/revisions\/6140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}