{"id":203370,"date":"2026-03-08T16:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T16:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-us-leader-says-iran-being-decimated-admits-us-troop-deployment-not-off-the-table-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T16:31:29","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-us-leader-says-iran-being-decimated-admits-us-troop-deployment-not-off-the-table-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-us-leader-says-iran-being-decimated-admits-us-troop-deployment-not-off-the-table-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: US leader says Iran being \u2018decimated\u2019; admits US troop deployment not off the table – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deployment of US ground troops could be discussed later on and \u2018would be a great thing\u2019 says president Trump. Key US politics stories from 7 March at a glance
As the war in the Middle East rages on, US president Donald Trump<\/a> has acknowledged that deploying ground troops in Iran in future is not off the table.
Pressed by the Guardian on whether he would send in troops to secure the enriched uranium, believed to be stored at Iranian nuclear sites that the United States bombed in Operation Midnight Hammer last year, Trump suggested that was a possibility.
\u201cWe haven\u2019t talked about it,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAt some point, maybe we will. It would be a great thing. Right now, we\u2019re just decimating them. We haven\u2019t gone after it but something we could do later on. We wouldn\u2019t do it now.\u201d
Here are the key stories at a glance.
Donald Trump on Saturday left open the possibility of sending US troops into Iran in certain circumstances and suggested they would win a ground war, while at the same time ruling out the possibility of having Kurdish forces in Iraq mount an invasion to take control of Tehran.
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s an appropriate question,\u201d Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. \u201cThere would have to be a very good reason. I would say if we ever did that they would be so decimated that they wouldn\u2019t be able to fight at the ground level.\u201d
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Donald Trump<\/a> has renewed his stinging criticism of UK prime minister Keir Starmer<\/a> over the lack of immediate UK support for the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
\u201cThe United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East,\u201d Trump wrote<\/a> on his social media platform, adding: \u201cThat\u2019s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don\u2019t need them any longer \u2013 But we will remember. We don\u2019t need people that join Wars after we\u2019ve already won!\u201d
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Donald Trump<\/a> on Saturday joined the families of six US soldiers killed in the war in the Middle East during a dignified transfer ritual at Dover air force base.
A \u201cdignified transfer\u201d is when the remains of US service members killed in action are returned to the US.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>

Donald Trump<\/a> changed the channel from Iran<\/a> to the western hemisphere on Saturday, convening a gathering of Latin American leaders at his Miami-area golf club to discuss regional interests and establishing what he called a \u201ccounter-cartel coalition\u201d.
\u201cJust as we formed a coalition to eradicate Isis, we now need a coalition to eradicate the cartels,\u201d he told 12 regional leaders gathered at what the White House called the \u201cShield of the Americas\u201d summit.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
ICE deports family<\/a>, including deaf boy who wasn\u2019t given his assistive devices
A Japanese \u2018conman\u2019 tried to sell an undercover DEA agent nuclear materials<\/a> \u2013 but how did he get them?
Rachel Leingang<\/a> <\/strong>looks at the role of Democratic attorney generals in this piece: <\/strong>\u2018We were ready\u2019: Democratic attorneys general lead fight to stop Trump<\/a>
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened 6 March 2026<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Deployment of US ground troops could be discussed later on and \u2018would be a great thing\u2019 says president Trump. Key US politics stories from 7 March at a glanceAs the war in the Middle East rages on, US president Donald Trump has acknowledged that deploying ground troops in Iran in future is not off the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-203370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}