{"id":239766,"date":"2026-08-07T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/239766\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:34:08","slug":"why-trump-is-caught-in-an-escalation-trap-with-iran-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/239766\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump is caught in an \u2018escalation trap\u2019 with Iran | Conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsFeed<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead u-inline \">University of Chicago Professor Robert Pape explains why US President Trump is caught in an \u2018escalation trap\u2019 with Iran. He says Trump faces two choices, either surrender and let Iran grow stronger, or escalate the war further, potentially seeking a symbolic victory ahead of the US midterms.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 7 Aug 20267 Aug 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share-nodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsFeed University of Chicago Professor Robert Pape explains why US President Trump is caught in an \u2018escalation trap\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[177,38,1303,34,46,49,42,87,52,81,88,51,67022,67023,23679,73],"class_list":["post-239766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-conflict","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-iran","tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-newsfeed","tag-opinions","tag-politics","tag-show-types","tag-united-states","tag-us-election-2024","tag-us-elections-2020","tag-us-midterm-elections-2022","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117054017744043438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239766","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=239766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}