{"id":192866,"date":"2025-06-17T23:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192866\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T23:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:00:10","slug":"trump-draws-ever-closer-to-strikes-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192866\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump draws ever closer to strikes on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">The Israel-Iran war is the most acute foreign-policy dilemma so far of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/middle-east-and-africa\/2025\/06\/15\/trumps-three-excruciating-choices-on-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump\u2019s turbulent second term<\/a>. Should America join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/middle-east-and-africa\/2025\/06\/16\/israels-race-to-kill-irans-nuclear-dream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel\u2019s attacks<\/a> on the Islamic Republic? The stakes are sky-high, the consequences of military action totally unpredictable, and the president\u2019s political movement split. Yet in a big shift the president is now signalling he may help Israel destroy Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities. On June 17th he warned \u201cour patience is wearing thin\u201d and demanded \u201cunconditional surrender\u201d. He then gathered in the Situation Room with his national-security advisers. A military build-up is underway. Insiders say that within the coming hours America will be positioned to attack Iran. The aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is steaming to the Gulf with a battle group, doubling the number of carriers in the region. A \u201cmajor flow\u201d of US Air Force aerial tankers is now flying to the Middle East according to OSINTechnical, an open-source intelligence account on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Israel-Iran war is the most acute foreign-policy dilemma so far of Donald Trump\u2019s turbulent second term. Should&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,13,774,837,839,12,14,49,75433,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-192866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-war-in-the-middle-east","17":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114701193948325637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}