U.S. President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland before departing for Texas on Feb. 27, 2026. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump said on March 2 that the U.S. military operation in Iran is expected to last four to five weeks and
Washington — President Trump said the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran represented the “last best chance” of addressing the threat posed by the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missiles and nuclear program. He also said the administration expects the campaign to last four to five weeks, but “we have [the] capability to go far longer than that.” Speaking at
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington on Aug. 11, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on March 2 that the military campaign against Iran is designed to achieve specific military objectives—not to engage in nation-building. Speaking at the Pentagon, Hegseth rejected
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (L) and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine (R) take questions on U.S. military action in Iran, at the Pentagon in Washington, on March 2, 2026. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images ARLINGTON, Va.—The U.S. military intends to send additional forces to the Middle East amid
He expired on his own terms, mid-resistance, surrounded by his closest friends and military aides Wikimedia Commons Ali Khamenei, the “Black Lives Matter” advocate and long-serving supreme leader of Iran, was a guiding light to Democratic lawmakers, Ivy League professors, and other progressive ideologues who endorsed his intellectual appraisal of America’s evil and the treachery
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference on U.S. military action in Iran, at the Pentagon in Washington on March 2, 2026. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on March 2 that four U.S. service members were killed during the Iran conflict after an Iranian projectile—which he referred
The Supreme Court in Washington on Feb. 21, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The U.S. Supreme Court on March 2 declined to take up a Utah woman’s request to review the legality of a federal law that prevents people with serious criminal convictions from owning firearms. The justices denied the petition in Vincent v. Bondi