{"id":131895,"date":"2026-02-24T03:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/trump-says-top-general-to-lead-potential-strike-on-iran-if-ordered\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T03:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:02:52","slug":"trump-says-top-general-to-lead-potential-strike-on-iran-if-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/trump-says-top-general-to-lead-potential-strike-on-iran-if-ordered\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says top general to lead potential strike on Iran \u201cif ordered\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, Feb 24 \u2013 U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will lead a potential strike on Iran if he is ordered to do so.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump said he would rather reach a deal with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, the Washington Post reported that Caine warned at a White House meeting last week that shortfalls in critical munitions and a lack of support from allies could pose a greater danger to U.S. troops in a potential strike on Iran, citing sources familiar with the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, Caine\u2019s office said that as the president\u2019s top military adviser, the chairman \u201cprovides a range of military options, as well as secondary considerations and associated impacts and risks, to the civilian leaders who make America\u2019s security decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A new round of U.S.-Iran talks is now scheduled for Thursday in Geneva and expected to focus on Iran\u2019s nuclear program, including uranium enrichment levels and sanctions relief.<\/p>\n<p>However, the previous two rounds of talks made little visible progress.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Feb 24 \u2013 U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will lead a potential strike on Iran if he is ordered to do so. Trump said he would rather reach a deal with Iran. Earlier on Monday, the Washington Post reported that Caine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}