{"id":27742,"date":"2026-05-12T16:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/27742\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:24:15","slug":"live-updates-iran-threatens-to-teach-a-lesson-if-u-s-attacks-trump-says-ceasefire-is-on-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/27742\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Updates: Iran threatens to &#8220;teach a lesson&#8221; if U.S. attacks, Trump says ceasefire is &#8220;on life support&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pressed by Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar of California on the ceasefire with Iran, Defense Secretary Hegseth insisted Tuesday that the truce remains &#8220;in effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As you know, for the most part a ceasefire means the fire is ceasing, and we know that has occurred while negotiations occur, and there are lots of different discussions with our negotiating team that are happening,&#8221; Hegseth said at a congressional hearing. &#8220;So, it&#8217;s a very dynamic situation, where a negotiated settlement could be the outcome here where Iran does not have nuclear capabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the brief Project Freedom operation, which, for a day, saw U.S. warships and planes guide a couple commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, Hegseth said &#8220;it was paused and it&#8217;s an option we could always recommence, should the commander in chief want us to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The theory of the entire case is to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon, and if that has to be done kinetically and militarily, the Department of War is locked and loaded and ready to do that,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth also pushed back on the suggestion that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-rearms-iran-ceasefire-advanced-munitions-supplies\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. munitions are depleted<\/a>, saying &#8220;that&#8217;s not true.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately we have all the munitions needed to execute what we need to execute, and we&#8217;re going to ensure that we supercharge that going into the future,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, who was also testifying before the committee Tuesday, said the U.S. has &#8220;sufficient munitions for what we&#8217;re tasked to do right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But he added that he &#8220;will always want more.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pressed by Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar of California on the ceasefire with Iran, Defense Secretary Hegseth insisted Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,2002,38,8,1391,19,37,273,246,9,282,7,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-27742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-ceasefire","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-hezbollah","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-lebanon","16":"tag-middle-east","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116562537072917218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}