{"id":488,"date":"2026-03-10T19:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socializenews.com\/?p=488"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:40:14","slug":"retired-army-general-iran-regime-fundamentally-miscalculated-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socializenews.com\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Retired Army general: Iran regime \u2018fundamentally miscalculated\u2019 Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired four-star U.S. Army Gen.\u00a0<span class=\"person-popover\" data-nid=\"82245\">Jack Keane\u00a0<\/span>said Monday that the Iranian government \u201cfundamentally miscalculated\u201d\u00a0<span class=\"person-popover\" data-nid=\"2086\">President Trump\u00a0<\/span>as\u00a0conflict in the Middle East\u00a0persists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat these guys did, Rita and John, is they fundamentally miscalculated President Trump,\u201d Keane told radio hosts\u00a0<span class=\"person-popover\" data-nid=\"34906\">John Catsimatidis\u00a0<\/span>and Rita Cosby on WABC\u2019s \u201cCats &amp; Cosby\u201d program. \u201cThey bought into the fact that Trump really wanted to negotiate and they could stall those negotiations, and that even if he did go to war, it would only last a couple or three days because he wouldn\u2019t have the patience to deal with it beyond that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a fundamental miscalculation that they did here, and they\u2019re certainly suffering a much-deserved consequence of all of that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker of the Iranian Parliament,\u00a0Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has warned the U.S. and Israel to avoid targeting infrastructure in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet the enemy know that whatever they do, we will undoubtedly respond with a proportionate and immediate retaliation; no malice will go unanswered, and today we decree the rule of \u2018an eye for an eye\u2019; bluntly, without exception.,\u201d Ghalibaf wrote on\u00a0social platform X.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Trump called the war against Iran an \u201cexcursion\u201d that would be over \u201cvery soon,\u201d comments that came as he dealt with\u00a0increasing oil prices,\u00a0troop casualties\u00a0and allies\u00a0facing retaliation\u00a0from Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was just an excursion into something that had to be done. We\u2019re getting very close to finishing that too,\u201d Trump said during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary\u00a0<span class=\"person-popover\" data-nid=\"60791\">Pete Hegseth\u00a0<\/span>told reporters Tuesday that it will be an \u201cintense day\u201d in Iran but called the military operation \u201ccontained.\u201d Both Hegseth and Trump have signaled that the U.S. is not ruling out\u00a0deploying troops to the region\u00a0in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came days after the president said he\u00a0would only accept\u00a0\u201cunconditional surrender\u201d from Iranian leadership.<\/p>\n<p>About $5.6 billion in munitions were used by the Pentagon in the first two days of the U.S. military operation against Iran, The Hill was told Monday night by\u00a0a congressional source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired four-star U.S. Army Gen.\u00a0Jack Keane\u00a0said Monday that the Iranian government \u201cfundamentally miscalculated\u201d\u00a0President Trump\u00a0as\u00a0conflict in the Middle East\u00a0persists. \u201cWhat these guys did, Rita and John,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-president-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socializenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socializenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socializenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socializenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socializenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/socializenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/socializenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socializenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socializenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socializenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socializenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}