{"id":203735,"date":"2026-03-11T14:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-war-on-iran-is-either-very-complete-or-just-starting-depending-on-who-is-talking-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:08:35","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-war-on-iran-is-either-very-complete-or-just-starting-depending-on-who-is-talking-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-war-on-iran-is-either-very-complete-or-just-starting-depending-on-who-is-talking-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: war on Iran is either \u2018very complete\u2019 or just starting, depending on who is talking – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

President and his Pentagon chief offer mixed messages as strikes on Iran continue \u2013 key US politics stories from 9 March at a glance
How much longer will US strikes on Iran continue? Getting a clear answer from the Trump administration<\/a> has been difficult \u2013 getting a consistent one, even more so.
According to Donald Trump, \u201cthe war is very complete<\/a>\u201d. At least that\u2019s what he told CBS News in a call on Monday.
That same day, the US Department of Defense posted on Twitter\/X<\/a>: \u201cWe have Only Just Begun to Fight.\u201d
Later on Monday, the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth<\/a> said the war would end on \u201cour timeline\u201d and that the US would not stop until \u201cthe enemy is totally and decisively defeated\u201d, promising Tuesday would see the most intense strikes in Iran yet<\/a>.
That\u2019s after Tehran residents say the Iranian capital endured what they described as its worst night of aerial bombardment overnight on Tuesday.
At least 1,245 civilians have been killed, including 194 children, by the US-Israeli war on Iran, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists in Iran group.
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth<\/a> has warned that Tuesday would be the \u201cmost intense\u201d day of US strikes yet, even as he blamed Iran for civilian casualties by claiming its forces were firing missiles from schools and hospitals.
Speaking alongside Gen Dan Caine, the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, Hegseth alleged Iran<\/a> was deliberately firing missiles from schools and hospitals, describing the country\u2019s leadership as \u201cdesperate and scrambling like the terrorist cowards they are\u201d.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The bombing of a primary school in Minab on 28 February killed scores of people, most of them seven- to 12-year-old girls. The strike is the worst mass killing of the US and Israel\u2019s war on Iran<\/a> so far \u2013 and has been described by Unesco as a \u201cgrave violation\u201d of international law. A growing body of evidence indicates that the strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school was carried out by the US.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Republican former prosecutor Clay Fuller and retired army general Shawn Harris, a Democrat, will head to a run-off after they came out ahead in a special election Tuesday to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a> in Congress.
The election for the state\u2019s 14th congressional district has been seen as a test of Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s sway and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in a deep-red pocket of north-west Georgia.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Mike Johnson<\/a>, the speaker of the US House of Representatives<\/a>, on Tuesday declined to condemn Republican lawmakers who recently made Islamophobic comments, saying only that he had spoken to them about their \u201ctone\u201d.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Three prosecutors installed by Donald Trump\u2019s administration<\/a> to lead the New Jersey attorney general\u2019s office after the president\u2019s former personal lawyer was disqualified from the role in December were also illegally appointed, a federal judge has ruled.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Donald Trump has appointed Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk<\/a>, to a key advisory board of the US Air Force Academy.
The 37-year-old joins a number of other loyalists to the president on the 16-member panel of the academy\u2019s board of visitors, which according to its website<\/a> \u201cinquires into the morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods and other matters\u201d of the Colorado Springs military training facility.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The MIT professor who has been appointed by Robert F Kennedy Jr to review the safety of Covid-19 vaccines has failed to meet basic scientific standards in his own research on the topic<\/a><\/strong>, according to more than a dozen scientists and public health experts.
The governor of Alabama<\/a> commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old prisoner <\/a><\/strong>who was scheduled<\/a><\/strong> to be executed this week<\/a><\/strong>; he was not in the building when the victim of the murder he was sentenced for was killed.
A new Democratic-led bill seeks to exempt small businesses from Donald Trump\u2019s latest round of tariffs<\/a><\/strong>, as small-business owners continue to reel from the impacts of the battle over the president\u2019s signature economic policy.
Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s artificial intelligence<\/a> company xAI won approval on Tuesday to run 41 methane gas turbines at its \u201cColossus 2\u201d datacenter in northern Mississippi<\/a><\/strong>. That\u2019s nearly double the amount it has been operating.
Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon\u2019s resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval Office<\/a><\/strong> and cabinet room and routinely recorded his conversations, has died. He was 99.
Police in Canada are investigating after shots were fired at the US consulate in Toronto.<\/a><\/strong> Officers said evidence was found of a discharged firearm and that no injuries were reported.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on Monday, 9 March<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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