{"id":368346,"date":"2026-08-08T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/trumps-top-general-wants-a-way-out-of-the-iran-war-sources\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:00:07","slug":"trumps-top-general-wants-a-way-out-of-the-iran-war-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/trumps-top-general-wants-a-way-out-of-the-iran-war-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s top general wants a way out of the Iran war: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/o8cGNWYCNmE\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Trump\u2019s top general wants a way out of the Iran war: Sources\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o8cGNWYCNmE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Over the last few weeks, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine has privately made clear to other top Trump advisers that the US needs to find an off-ramp from the war with Iran \u2014 because the military options on the table to escalate the conflict could backfire and airpower alone is unlikely to achieve President Donald Trump\u2019s stated objectives, according to three sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaine is looking for an off ramp,\u201d one of the sources said bluntly. Caine is not alone in his view that the war has reached a crossroads. He has discussed concerns about the military options for escalating the conflict and raised the prospect of finding an off-ramp from the war with other key Cabinet officials, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, two of the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Trump\u2019s top general looking for Iran war off-ramp<br \/>\n4:39 Ambassador John Bolton reacts<br \/>\n7:55 What other options does the US have?<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/p>\n<p>#News #iran #trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine has privately made clear to other top Trump advisers that the US needs to find an off-ramp from the war with Iran \u2014 because the military options on the table to escalate the conflict could backfire and airpower alone is unlikely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-368346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump\u2019s top general wants a way out of the Iran war: Sources | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Trump\u2019s top general wants a way out of the Iran war: Sources for free, here on News ISC. 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