{"id":19602,"date":"2026-03-04T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-leavitt-briefs-reporters-amid-iran-attacks-hegseth-promises-more-and-larger-strikes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:23:09","slug":"live-updates-leavitt-briefs-reporters-amid-iran-attacks-hegseth-promises-more-and-larger-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-leavitt-briefs-reporters-amid-iran-attacks-hegseth-promises-more-and-larger-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Leavitt briefs reporters amid Iran attacks; Hegseth promises &#8216;more and larger&#8217; strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is briefing reporters on Wednesday after top military officials announced plans for &#8220;more and larger&#8221; strikes on Iran. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Dan Caine briefed reporters earlier about the U.S. attacks on the Middle Eastern country&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5766516-live-updates-hegseth-iran-texas-primaries-noem-dhs\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is briefing reporters on Wednesday after top military officials announced plans for &#8220;more and larger&#8221; strikes on Iran. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Dan Caine briefed reporters earlier about the U.S. attacks on the Middle Eastern country&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}