{"id":292061,"date":"2026-04-16T19:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=292061"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:37:18","slug":"hegseth-warns-iranian-leaders-to-choose-wisely-on-deal-with-us-we-are-locked-and-loaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=292061","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth warns Iranian leaders to &#8216;choose wisely&#8217; on deal with US: &#8216;We are locked and loaded&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>War Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Iranian leaders to &#8220;choose wisely&#8221; on whether to accept a peace deal with the U.S. on Thursday.Hegseth made the comments during a press briefing at the Pentagon, saying the U.S. military is &#8220;locked and loaded&#8221; and prepared to strike Iran&#8217;s energy infrastructure.&#8221;We&#8217;ll start with a message to Iran&#8217;s military leadership,&#8221; Hegseth said&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/hegseth-warns-iranian-leaders-choose-wisely-deal-us-we-locked-loaded\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">at Fox<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Iranian leaders to &#8220;choose wisely&#8221; on whether to accept a peace deal with the U.S. on Thursday.Hegseth made the comments during a press briefing at the Pentagon, saying the U.S. military is &#8220;locked and loaded&#8221; and prepared to strike Iran&#8217;s energy infrastructure.&#8221;We&#8217;ll start with a message to Iran&#8217;s military leadership,&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":292062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/292062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292061"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=292061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}