{"id":9503,"date":"2025-05-01T09:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?p=9503"},"modified":"2025-05-01T09:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:37:55","slug":"pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Chief Threatens Military Action Against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth threatened military action against Iran on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We see your LETHAL support to The Houthis. We know exactly what you are doing,&#8221; Hegseth said in a post on X. &#8220;You know very well what the U.S. Military is capable of \u2014 and you were warned. You will pay the CONSEQUENCE at the time and place of our choosing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Hegseth&#8217;s post warning of military force is unusual for a defense secretary to make, especially so explicitly, though it appears to be in response to an incident earlier this week in the Red Sea that caused a U.S. fighter jet to fall off an aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, a Houthi drone forced the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier to make an evasive maneuver, which some believe caused an F-18 Super Hornet worth $67 million and a tow tractor to fall off the carrier and into the Red Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plane was actively under tow in a hangar bay when the crew lost control of\u00a0<u>the aircraft<\/u>. Both the jet and tow went overboard and were lost in the sea, the Navy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump elevated a military campaign against the terrorist group on March 15, and airstrikes have been launched against Houthi targets every day since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Message to IRAN:<br><br>We see your LETHAL support to The Houthis. We know exactly what you are doing. <br><br>You know very well what the U.S. Military is capable of \u2014 and you were warned. You will pay the CONSEQUENCE at the time and place of our choosing.<\/p>&mdash; Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecDef\/status\/1917741093392707886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After his post on Wednesday, Hegseth then retweeted a Truth Social post by\u00a0President Donald Trump\u00a0from March 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Let nobody be fooled! The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN,&#8221; Trump posted. &#8220;Any further attack or retaliation by the \u2018Houthis\u2019 will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that the force will stop there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Iran has played the \u2018innocent victim\u2019 of rogue terrorists from which they\u2019ve lost control, but they haven\u2019t lost control. They\u2019re dictating every move, giving them the weapons, supplying them with money and highly sophisticated Military equipment, and even, so-called, \u2018Intelligence.\u2019 Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0joked that embattled Defense Secretary\u00a0Pete Hegseth\u00a0is his \u201cleast controversial person\u201d during a cabinet meeting at the White House Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lighthearted moment comes a little over a week after the former Fox News host was embroiled in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/breaking-pete-hegseth-reportedly-shared-attack-details-with-wife-and-brother-in-second-signal-chat\/\">second Signalgate scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI could start with Pete on the left because he is my least controversial person at the table,\u201d Trump said to laughter as he motioned toward Hegseth. \u201cWe all know how good he is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full remarks here per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/trump-jokes-hegseth-is-my-least-controversial-person-during-cabinet-meeting\/\">Mediaite<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>DONALD TRUMP: With that, I think we\u2019ll maybe go around and we have some letters where the secretaries and people around the table are making statements about how they are doing and what is happening and I could start with Pete on the left because he is my least controversial person at the table. [Laughter]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all know how good he is. We\u2019ll go around the table and you can hear. These are cabinet meetings where they are very open and transparent. I can guarantee you Biden didn\u2019t do this. He didn\u2019t do this. Go ahead Pete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PETE HEGSETH: I think we\u2019re controversial because we\u2019re over the target. Like so many things, Mr. President, you inherited a demoralized military that couldn\u2019t recruit, that was perceived as weak in Afghanistan and elsewhere because of Joe Biden. What we have seen since your election and the inauguration has been nothing short of a recruiting renaissance. Decades since we\u2019ve seen this kind of recruiting in the army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force. The men and women of America want to join the United States military led by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TRUMP: And the police, by the way. And fire. I always mention the fire but the police and fire likewise are \u2014 I mean, they have waiting lists now. And six months ago, it was a disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HEGSETH: Truly historic. We can barely absorb the volume and retention as well. Men and women in the military who don\u2019t want to get out now that they have a real commander in chief. We\u2019re reinforcing standards. Gonna be fit, not fat in our formations. Welcome back all the COVID \u2014 the folks who were forced out because of the COVID mandate. We ripped wokeness out of the military, sir, DEI, trans and it\u2019s Fort Benning and Fort Bragg again at the DOD. We\u2019re rebuilding the military, sir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Golden Dome is well underway. F-47, reassuring allies and deterring enemies. We found nearly $6 billion in DOGE savings that we\u2019re going to reinvest, including $50 billion from the Biden administration focused on things like climate that have nothing to do with lethality and war fighting. And we will have as you said, sir, the first trillion-dollar budget we plan to spend wisely on behalf of our warfighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Day one, sir, we have helped get 100% operational control of the border. Come alongside DHS and CBP. We\u2019ve got 11,000 troops on the border who now, because of the new national defense area, sir, can help detain illegals at the border and hand them over to CBP. It used to be if you saw camouflage on the border, they could hold binoculars, and that\u2019s it. Now we can detain and assist and we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll get 100% operational control of the border. Our NATO allies know they have to step up. The Houthis in the Middle East are feeling the weight of American power and we\u2019re deterring communist China. So because of your leadership, sir, I believe we\u2019re making the military great again. Thank you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth threatened military action against Iran on Wednesday night. &#8220;We see your LETHAL support to The Houthis. We know exactly what you are doing,&#8221; Hegseth said in a post on X. &#8220;You know very well what the U.S. Military is capable of \u2014 and you were warned. You will pay the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355],"tags":[725,246,287,216,1443],"class_list":["post-9503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-security","tag-iran","tag-military","tag-national-security","tag-pentagon","tag-pete-hegseth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pentagon Chief Threatens Military Action Against Iran - Great America News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pentagon Chief Threatens Military Action Against Iran - Great America News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth threatened military action against Iran on Wednesday night. &#8220;We see your LETHAL support to The Houthis. We know exactly what you are doing,&#8221; Hegseth said in a post on X. &#8220;You know very well what the U.S. Military is capable of \u2014 and you were warned. You will pay the [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Great America News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-01T13:37:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-01T13:37:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The_Pentagon_.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"585\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Madeleine Jackson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Madeleine Jackson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Madeleine Jackson\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e7309ff06a09187d683d78b9529a62b2\"},\"headline\":\"Pentagon Chief Threatens Military Action Against Iran\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-01T13:37:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-01T13:37:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/\"},\"wordCount\":997,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The_Pentagon_.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"Iran\",\"Military\",\"National Security\",\"Pentagon\",\"Pete Hegseth\"],\"articleSection\":[\"National Security\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/\",\"name\":\"Pentagon Chief Threatens Military Action Against Iran - Great America News Desk\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The_Pentagon_.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-01T13:37:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-01T13:37:55+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The_Pentagon_.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The_Pentagon_.jpeg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":585,\"caption\":\"David B. Gleason from Chicago, IL, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Pentagon Chief Threatens Military Action Against Iran\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/\",\"name\":\"Great America News Desk\",\"description\":\"Your Source for Great America&#039;s News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Great America News Desk\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GAND-Email.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GAND-Email.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":148,\"caption\":\"Great America News Desk\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e7309ff06a09187d683d78b9529a62b2\",\"name\":\"Madeleine Jackson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/eb743ca3c0d5dee4d94e8a5a7742d76f842c0bcdbe5f6f26ea19261f1c8a9df0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/eb743ca3c0d5dee4d94e8a5a7742d76f842c0bcdbe5f6f26ea19261f1c8a9df0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Madeleine Jackson\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/author\/njackson\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Pentagon Chief Threatens Military Action Against Iran - Great America News Desk","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Pentagon Chief Threatens Military Action Against Iran - Great America News Desk","og_description":"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth threatened military action against Iran on Wednesday night. &#8220;We see your LETHAL support to The Houthis. We know exactly what you are doing,&#8221; Hegseth said in a post on X. &#8220;You know very well what the U.S. Military is capable of \u2014 and you were warned. You will pay the [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/","og_site_name":"Great America News Desk","article_published_time":"2025-05-01T13:37:53+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-05-01T13:37:55+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":585,"url":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The_Pentagon_.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Madeleine Jackson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Madeleine Jackson","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/"},"author":{"name":"Madeleine Jackson","@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e7309ff06a09187d683d78b9529a62b2"},"headline":"Pentagon Chief Threatens Military Action Against Iran","datePublished":"2025-05-01T13:37:53+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-01T13:37:55+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/"},"wordCount":997,"commentCount":1,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The_Pentagon_.jpeg","keywords":["Iran","Military","National Security","Pentagon","Pete Hegseth"],"articleSection":["National Security"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/","url":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/","name":"Pentagon Chief Threatens Military Action Against Iran - Great America News Desk","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The_Pentagon_.jpeg","datePublished":"2025-05-01T13:37:53+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-01T13:37:55+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The_Pentagon_.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The_Pentagon_.jpeg","width":1024,"height":585,"caption":"David B. Gleason from Chicago, IL, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/national-security\/pentagon-chief-threatens-military-action-against-iran\/njackson\/2025\/05\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Pentagon Chief Threatens Military Action Against Iran"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/","name":"Great America News Desk","description":"Your Source for Great America&#039;s News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#organization","name":"Great America News Desk","url":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GAND-Email.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GAND-Email.png","width":600,"height":148,"caption":"Great America News Desk"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e7309ff06a09187d683d78b9529a62b2","name":"Madeleine Jackson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/eb743ca3c0d5dee4d94e8a5a7742d76f842c0bcdbe5f6f26ea19261f1c8a9df0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/eb743ca3c0d5dee4d94e8a5a7742d76f842c0bcdbe5f6f26ea19261f1c8a9df0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Madeleine Jackson"},"url":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/author\/njackson\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The_Pentagon_.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}