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United States Vows Retaliation; Wave of Intensified Strikes Against Iran Anticipated.<\/strong><\/p>\n General Dan Kane, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, stated in a press briefing held at the Pentagon on Tuesday morning, 17 March 2026 (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-4) that Washington would \u201ctake revenge\u201d for the killing of the crew of a military refueling aircraft and would escalate attacks against Iran\u2019s military capabilities.<\/strong> United States Vows Retaliation; Wave of Intensified Strikes Against Iran Anticipated. General Dan Kane, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, stated in a press briefing held at the Pentagon on Tuesday morning, 17 March 2026 (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-4) that Washington would \u201ctake revenge\u201d for the killing of the crew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15981,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959\/revisions\/15981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAt the beginning of his remarks, he referred to the crash of the refueling aircraft in the skies over western Iraq on Monday, 16 March 2026, which resulted in the deaths of four crew members, stressing that U.S. forces would not leave the incident unanswered and that a severe military response was forthcoming.<\/strong>
\nHe added that American forces continue to target Iran\u2019s ballistic missile and drone capabilities, while operations aimed at weakening Iran\u2019s naval power are also ongoing.<\/strong>
\nKane stated that these actions are intended to neutralize Iran\u2019s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the region and that the strikes would continue until such capabilities are fully eliminated.<\/strong>
\nHe also commented on a fire aboard the aircraft carrier \u201cGerald Ford,\u201d noting that preliminary assessments indicate the crew\u2019s condition has been reported as stable.<\/strong>
\nThe U.S. military chief further claimed that American forces have so far struck more than six thousand targets inside Iran and conducted an unprecedented number of combat sorties over Iranian airspace.<\/strong>
\nAccording to him, Iran\u2019s naval forces have been significantly weakened, and current military operations are focused on preventing mine-laying activities in the Strait of Hormuz and destroying weapons-manufacturing plants and major ammunition depots.<\/strong>
\nHe warned that Tuesday, 17 March 2026, could become \u201cthe heaviest and busiest day of U.S. attacks\u201d in the course of the confrontation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"