{"id":3670,"date":"2026-03-12T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:39:26","slug":"hegseth-us-prepared-to-take-action-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/?p=3670","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth: US \u2018Prepared\u2019 To Take Action Against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Secretary of War Pete Hegseth addresses National Guard and law enforcement personnel during a visit to the U.S. Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility in Washington, D.C., Sept. 10, 2025. About 2,300 National Guard members are supporting the D.C. Safe and Beautiful mission providing critical support to the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department in ensuring the safety of all who live, work and visit the District. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Renee Seruntine)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>February 03, 2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/author\/radio-free-europe\/\">Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot_3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot_3-1.jpg 819w, https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot_3-1-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot_3-1-768x374.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article was originally&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/33667719.html\">published&nbsp;<\/a>by Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has once again warned Tehran that the Pentagon is \u201cmore than prepared\u201d to take action if Iran refuses to negotiate over its nuclear program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe President\u2019s been clear from the beginning, as he was before Midnight Hammer. Iran will not have nuclear weapons capability. And so they can either negotiate on that front, or we have other options,\u201d Hegseth said on February 2, speaking to reporters on a trip to Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stressing that military action is not the preferred option, the defense secretary added: \u201c[US President Donald Trump] doesn\u2019t want to go that route, I don\u2019t want to go that route, but our job is to be prepared, and so of course we are, we\u2019re more than prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of War Pete Hegseth addresses National Guard and law enforcement personnel during a visit to the U.S. Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility in Washington, D.C., Sept. 10, 2025. About&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot_3-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions\/3672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralvibenews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}