{"id":281233,"date":"2026-09-07T04:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/281233\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T04:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:12:11","slug":"trump-administration-is-strategically-flailing-over-iran-war-mei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/281233\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration is \u2018strategically flailing\u2019 over Iran war: MEI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email<\/p>\n<p>Middle East Institute\u2019s Alan Eyre argues the Iran war is eroding US credibility, leaving the Trump administration with \u201cno clear idea\u201d how to end the conflict. He says China stands to benefit from the strategic damage, while the best US off-ramp may require a deal with Tehran to restore traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Middle East Institute\u2019s Alan Eyre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[327,124,135,648,38,34,1007,269,81,2788,699],"class_list":["post-281233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-ali-khamenei","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-business-news","tag-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-neutral","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-politics","tag-world-economy","tag-wti-crude-sep25"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117227811217163277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281233","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=281233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}