{"id":196131,"date":"2026-07-08T11:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/196131\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T11:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:35:16","slug":"absolutely-necessary-nato-chief-backs-us-strike-on-iran-blames-tehran-for-ceasefire-breaches-the-economic-times-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/196131\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Absolutely necessary\u2026&#8217;: NATO chief backs US strike on Iran, blames Tehran for ceasefire breaches &#8211; The Economic Times Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new attacks by the US on Iran were &#8220;absolutely necessary,&#8221; NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Wednesday (July 8). &#8220;When you have a ceasefire and Iran is basically violating the ceasefire&#8230; I think it is totally crucial that the U.S. forcefully reacts,&#8221; Rutte told reporters before a summit of NATO leaders in Ankara, Turkey. NATO\u2019s European leaders aim to convince U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday to re-commit to the military alliance at a summit in Ankara after the U.S. president revived his disputes with them over the Iran war and Greenland.<\/p>\n<p> Show more Show less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new attacks by the US on Iran were &#8220;absolutely necessary,&#8221; NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[89,141,38,34,69,3337,58151,58150,860],"class_list":["post-196131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","tag-centcom","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-tehran","tag-us-attacks-iran","tag-us-iran-oil-sanctions-removal","tag-us-iran-war-resumes","tag-us-strikes-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116884155345481713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}