{"id":16594,"date":"2026-07-25T08:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=16594"},"modified":"2026-07-25T08:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:23:31","slug":"us-didnt-decimiate-irans-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=16594","title":{"rendered":"US Didn&#8217;t &#8216;Decimiate&#8217; Iran&#8217;s Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<p>Fox News\u2019<strong> Laura Ingraham<\/strong> said Friday that reporting detailing how an Iranian threat forced President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> not to use his gifted Qatari jet undercuts his claims on the war in the region, declaring, \u201cWe didn\u2019t decimate their military capabilities, obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/this-is-a-cover-story-leon-panetta-says-trump-is-hiding-the-true-reason-behind-air-force-one-switch\/\">speculation<\/a> of security concerns has been spreading since early July over the reasoning behind Trump\u2019s switch back to the original Air Force One for his journey home from the NATO Summit in Turkey, <em>The New York Times\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/24\/us\/politics\/trump-plane-iran-threat.html?eafs_enabled=false\">reported<\/a> Friday, per multiple people briefed on the matter, that officials deemed there was \u201ca credible threat that Iranian proxy forces were targeting him and Air Force One.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/skeptical-maggie-haberman-calls-trump-plane-switch-excuse-a-little-hard-to-believe\/\">claimed<\/a> the switch was because he wanted to allow American troops in Britain to see the $400 million Qatari gift.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if Iran can credibly threaten Air Force One overseas,\u201d said Ingraham on <em>The Ingraham Angle<\/em> Friday, \u201cwe didn\u2019t decimate their military capabilities, obviously. They are still capable of a lot of harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here, Ingraham is referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/trump-flat-out-declares-iran-is-already-decimated-for-a-10-year-period\/\">claims<\/a> by the president, which he\u2019s made multiple times\u00a0 throughout the conflict, that Iran has been \u201cdecimated for a 10-year period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The war in Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-timeline-trump-hormuz-war-ceasefire-04da58cbae991183f8b52ef5bf615963\">began<\/a> Feb. 28. A tentative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/trump-appears-to-add-day-to-iran-ceasefire-amid-confusion-around-talks\/\">ceasefire<\/a> was reached in April, and then broken in June. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/read-updated-full-text-of-trumps-14-point-mou-with-iran\/\">memorandum of understanding<\/a> was reached later in June, and consequently also broken. Since then, the U.S. and Iran have continued to exchange deadly military strikes, with four American service members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-wildly-claims-fallen-us-troops-said-very-strongly-we-cant-let-iran-have-a-nuclear-weapon\/\">killed<\/a> just this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As for the <em>Times<\/em>\u2018 reporting on the matter, on Thursday, the Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/print\/breaking-trump-doj-withdraws-subpoenas-sent-to-nyt-journalists\/\">withdrew<\/a> subpoenas seeking phone records and grand jury testimony from three reporters who assisted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/08\/us\/politics\/trump-air-force-one-security.html?eafs_enabled=false\">covering<\/a> the initial speculation over the plane switch. Federal Judge <strong>Arun Subramanian<\/strong> sharply criticized the government\u2019s handling of the case and indicated he would quash the subpoenas, questioning whether prosecutors had even followed the legal standards for subpoenaing journalists.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/i-dont-know-whats-appropriate-and-whats-not-trump-maintains-nyt-subpoenas-were-strictly-to-find-leakers\/\">maintained<\/a> that the subpoenas were strictly meant to find the \u201cleakers\u201d responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the clip of Ingraham above via Fox News.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News\u2019 Laura Ingraham said Friday that reporting detailing how an Iranian threat forced President Donald Trump not to use his gifted Qatari jet undercuts his claims on the war in the region, declaring, \u201cWe didn\u2019t decimate their military capabilities, obviously.\u201d While speculation of security concerns has been spreading since early July over the reasoning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-24-at-5-30-44-PM-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}