{"id":368524,"date":"2026-08-09T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/trumps-top-general-is-looking-for-an-off-ramp-from-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:00:10","slug":"trumps-top-general-is-looking-for-an-off-ramp-from-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/trumps-top-general-is-looking-for-an-off-ramp-from-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s top general is \u2018looking for an off-ramp\u2019 from Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/mJF_wbRi7vU\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Trump\u2019s top general is \u2018looking for an off-ramp\u2019 from Iran war\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mJF_wbRi7vU\" 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. CNN\u2019s Julia Benbrook reports from New Jersey, where the president is spending the weekend.<\/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":368525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-368524","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 is \u2018looking for an off-ramp\u2019 from Iran war | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Trump\u2019s top general is \u2018looking for an off-ramp\u2019 from Iran war for free, here on News ISC. 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