{"id":121819,"date":"2026-03-04T13:10:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=121819"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:10:46","slug":"iran-says-it-has-not-yet-used-its-most-advanced-weaponry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/121819\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says it has not yet used its most advanced weaponry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEHRAN(National Times)- Iran is ready for a long war against the United States and Israel and has so far not used its most advanced weapons, its Defense Ministry says.\u201cWe have the capacity to resist and to continue an offensive defense longer than what [the enemy] has planned for this imposed war,\u201d ministry spokesman Reza Talaei-Nik is quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency.\u201cWe do not intend to deploy all our advanced weapons and equipment in the first days,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN(National Times)- Iran is ready for a long war against the United States and Israel and has so far not used its most advanced weapons, its Defense Ministry says.\u201cWe have the capacity to resist and to continue an offensive defense longer than what [the enemy] has planned for this imposed war,\u201d ministry spokesman Reza Talaei-Nik [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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