{"id":239642,"date":"2026-03-02T17:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=239642"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:36:46","slug":"iran-will-never-be-allowed-to-obtain-nuclear-weapons-takeaways-from-pentagon-chief-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/239642\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Iran will never be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons\u2019: Takeaways from Pentagon chief press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Iran will never be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.<\/p>\n

Below are the key takeaways from his news conference:<\/p>\n

A regime change will take place in Iran.<\/li>\n
The United States did not start the war against Iran, but President Donald Trump’s administration will end it.<\/li>\n
Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, its attacks on global shipping routes, and its expanding arsenal of ballistic missiles and offensive drones are no longer acceptable risks for the United States.<\/li>\n
Iran was developing advanced missiles and drones to create a conventional shield for its nuclear blackmail ambitions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Iran will never be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. Below are the key takeaways from his news conference: A regime change will take place in Iran. The United States did not start the war against Iran, but President Donald Trump’s administration will end it. Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,96,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-iran-en","category-region"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239643,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239642\/revisions\/239643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}