{"id":19604,"date":"2026-03-04T21:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/watch-live-white-house-briefs-reporters-as-concerns-rise-over-widening-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:23:08","slug":"watch-live-white-house-briefs-reporters-as-concerns-rise-over-widening-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/watch-live-white-house-briefs-reporters-as-concerns-rise-over-widening-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch live: White House briefs reporters as concerns rise over widening Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Wednesday afternoon as concerns rise over the U.S. military&#8217;s operation in Iran and the risk of a wider war. The U.S. and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran over the weekend, killing supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier Wednesday previewed that more military&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/video-clips\/5767082-watch-live-white-house-press-briefing-donald-trump-iran-strikes\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Wednesday afternoon as concerns rise over the U.S. military&#8217;s operation in Iran and the risk of a wider war. The U.S. and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran over the weekend, killing supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier Wednesday previewed that more military&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19604","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\/19604","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=19604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}