{"id":7871,"date":"2026-03-19T20:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=7871"},"modified":"2026-03-19T20:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:16:04","slug":"us-defense-secretary-says-major-progress-made-in-operations-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2026\/03\/19\/us-defense-secretary-says-major-progress-made-in-operations-against-iran","title":{"rendered":"US Defense Secretary says major progress made in operations against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"92\" data-end=\"422\"><strong data-start=\"92\" data-end=\"118\">Washington:<\/strong> US Defense Secretary <strong data-start=\"142\" data-end=\"183\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Pat Higsteth<\/span><\/span><\/strong> announced significant progress in the ongoing military campaign against Iran during an emergency press briefing, stating that the United States is \u201cfighting to win\u201d and claiming that Iran\u2019s military capabilities are nearing destruction.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"424\" data-end=\"779\">According to figures released by the Pentagon, over 7,000 targets inside Iran were struck in a single day. The Iranian navy reportedly lost 120 warships and 11 submarines. Key ballistic missile production facilities have been rendered inoperable, and Iranian leadership has reportedly taken shelter in bunkers due to sustained U.S. strikes and pressure.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"781\" data-end=\"1108\">Secretary Higsteth emphasized that this conflict differs from traditional wars, asserting that U.S. forces will continue operations until Iran\u2019s offensive capabilities are neutralized. He criticized media reports for misrepresenting the situation, insisting that the United States has already achieved its primary objectives.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1110\" data-end=\"1430\">Higsteth further warned that an upcoming airstrike would be the largest operation to date, aiming to eliminate Iran\u2019s naval and missile infrastructure completely. Reaffirming the goal of ending proxy conflicts, he paid tribute to U.S. military personnel, assuring that their sacrifices would be remembered and honored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: US Defense Secretary Pat Higsteth announced significant progress in the ongoing military campaign against Iran during an emergency press briefing, stating that the United States is \u201cfighting to win\u201d and claiming that Iran\u2019s military capabilities are nearing destruction. According to figures released by the Pentagon, over 7,000 targets inside Iran were struck in a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,2294],"class_list":["post-7871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-headline","tag-youdigital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7873,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions\/7873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}