Trump Admin Signals Iran Conflict Wrapping Up as US Forces Deliver Heaviest Day of Strikes

War Secretary Pete Hegseth said U.S. military operations against Iran will not turn into an ‘endless nation-building’ project.

A police officer stands guard beneath a poster of Iran's former leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, on March 10, 2026. Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

President Donald Trump may be readying to declare victory in the military campaign against Iran, after nearly two weeks of U.S.–Israeli strikes on the Persian state.

At a press conference in Doral, Florida, on March 9, the president said that U.S. and Israeli forces were “winning very decisively” and that the joint military operation was “way ahead of schedule.”