{"id":57669,"date":"2025-08-26T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=57669"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:54:10","slug":"us-general-fired-for-his-intel-report-on-iran-nuclearsites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/57669\/us-general-fired-for-his-intel-report-on-iran-nuclearsites\/","title":{"rendered":"US general fired for his intel report on Iran nuclearsites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&#8217;s\u00a0firings on Friday, which, according to US officials who spoke to the Reuters and Associated Press (AP) news agencies, also include two other senior military commanders, are the latest moves by the Trump administration to purge officials at the Department of Defense, Al Jazeera reported.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately known on what grounds Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse, who led the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) since early 2024, was fired.<\/p>\n<p>But President Trump had previously decried the agency\u2019s initial findings on US strikes against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The initial DIA assessment \u2013 which was widely reported on by US media \u2013 contradicted claims by Trump that the strikes totally destroyed the nuclear sites, drawing the ire of both the president and officials within his administration.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&#8217;s\u00a0firings on Friday, which, according to US officials who spoke to the Reuters and Associated Press (AP) news agencies, also include two other senior military commanders, are the latest moves by the Trump administration to purge officials at the Department of Defense, Al Jazeera reported. It was not immediately known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7103,7100,7110,7102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-international-en","category-politic-en","category-society-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}