{"id":14133,"date":"2025-06-25T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/14133\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T18:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:01:16","slug":"the-alluring-fantasy-of-a-quick-win-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/14133\/","title":{"rendered":"The alluring fantasy of a quick win in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">AFTER THE elation, the doubt. President Donald Trump said that \u201cOperation Midnight Hammer\u201d, had \u201ctotally obliterated\u201d Iran\u2019s uranium-enrichment facilities. But now an early intelligence assessment leaked on June 24th suggests the nuclear programme has only been set back by months and that some enriched uranium may have been spirited away. The report is an early \u201clow-confidence\u201d assessment that both the Trump administration and Israeli sources eschew. But it illuminates a bigger problem. Mr Trump wants a quick-fix to the Iran nightmare with a single, clarifying mega-strike, a ceasefire and then prosperity. Instead America faces years of uncertainty over Iran\u2019s capabilities and intentions. As a result Mr Trump\u2019s assumption\u2014that he can have a one-day Middle East military triumph and then quickly secure a lasting deal\u2014may be badly misplaced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFTER THE elation, the doubt. President Donald Trump said that \u201cOperation Midnight Hammer\u201d, had \u201ctotally obliterated\u201d Iran\u2019s uranium-enrichment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[83,99,3097,50,67,1901,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-14133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-middle-east","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-war-in-the-middle-east","14":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114745316793568670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}