{"id":877631,"date":"2026-04-07T09:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/877631\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:15:16","slug":"will-pete-hegseth-take-the-fall-for-the-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/877631\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Pete Hegseth take the fall for the Iran war?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know that US President Donald Trump is the ultimate decision maker when it comes to the war in Iran, but who\u2019s in his ear? From Pete Hegseth to Marco Rubio and JD Vance, they\u2019re each playing a role in executing or trying to explain the rationale for the controversial action in Iran. If the war can\u2019t be sold as a success in the end, who in Trump\u2019s cabinet will end up paying the price?<\/p>\n<p>USSC Associate Professor David Smith spoke with ABC News Daily on Trump&#8217;s cabinet and their political competence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We know that US President Donald Trump is the ultimate decision maker when it comes to the war&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-877631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116362669347825409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877631","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=877631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}