{"id":203331,"date":"2025-06-21T19:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T19:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203331\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T19:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T19:59:11","slug":"an-explosive-moment-of-truth-for-iran-and-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203331\/","title":{"rendered":"An explosive moment of truth for Iran and Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">THE SECOND week of Israel\u2019s war on Iran may be even more dangerous than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2025\/06\/19\/where-will-the-iran-israel-war-end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the first<\/a>. In Iran the destruction is relentless: on June 21st there were strikes on its Isfahan nuclear facility and more assassinations. For Israel, after a dazzling display of prowess, the coming days threaten to expose horribly the limits of its military power, with a long-distance air campaign suffering diminishing returns and Iran\u2019s regime recovering its poise. A war that peters out would leave the regime intact and with greater incentives to race for a bomb. That nightmarish prospect may lead Israel to escalate in the pursuit of a knock-out blow or to draw in America. President Donald Trump was due to meet his national security team on June 21st and B-2 stealth bombers are being moved out of America. Iran is ramping-up threats. On June 21st it warned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/middle-east-and-africa\/2025\/06\/20\/trump-v-iran-a-negotiation-made-in-hell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American involvemen<\/a>t would be \u201cvery, very dangerous for everybody\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE SECOND week of Israel\u2019s war on Iran may be even more dangerous than the first. In Iran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,774,12,1144,712,16,15,1764,75433,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-203331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales","18":"tag-war-in-the-middle-east","19":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114723132169179184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203331","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=203331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}