{"id":1287,"date":"2025-06-19T15:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2025-06-19T15:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:20:23","slug":"israel-iran-conflict-intensifies-as-trump-sends-mixed-messages-and-region-careens-toward-outright-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/19\/israel-iran-conflict-intensifies-as-trump-sends-mixed-messages-and-region-careens-toward-outright-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel, Iran Conflict Intensifies as Trump Sends Mixed Messages and Region Careens Toward Outright War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a wrap-up of the latest developments:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-iran-attacks-nuclear-news-06-19-2025-b508817b78ed8d2f6067c1516215cf94\">Iranian missiles hit a hospital in Israel \u2013 there are reports that over 200 people were injured.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/middle-east\/live-blog\/live-updates-israel-iran-reactor-hospital-rcna213904\">The attack occurred after Israel had targeted Iran&#8217;s Arak nuclear reactor.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/06\/18\/world\/israel-iran-trump\">Indecisive, dithering former game show host Donald Trump says the US may or may not enter the conflict.<\/a> The Wall Street Journal is reporting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/national-security\/trump-privately-approved-attack-plans-for-iran-but-has-withheld-final-order-4563c526?gaa_at=eafs&#038;gaa_n=ASWzDAjuP2QMrqq5wKlGQdS6fE0Fiap6RBUDE3GzSh2axEcztLsTvXMEF6E5rV55qMQ%3D&#038;gaa_ts=68542d8c&#038;gaa_sig=c2hYv0tC_A9I1c2QDA0NlxXkC-dYEhY1XZsgtic-5FsKSFReOTHDXJ66KLImBobPuQWp8kBEWDEndhZiKecalg%3D%3D\">Trump has privately approved attack plans targeting Iran, but has withheld a green light.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/israel-iran-arak-heavy-water-reactor_n_68536c74e4b01d1a9ebd1cef\">Israel&#8217;s defense minister has threatened Iran&#8217;s supreme leader after the Iranian missile attack on a hospital,<\/a> saying Khamenei &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jun\/19\/israel-iran-conflict-live-hospital-in-southern-israel-hit-in-iran-missile-strike-say-israeli-officials\">can no longer be allowed to exist<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/06\/19\/israel-iran-strikes-live-us-trump\/\">WaPo reports that Israel will step up strikes on Iran.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/c994v4gm9jmt\">Should the US join Israeli strikes, the result &#8216;would cause hell&#8217;, according to an Iranian minister who spoke to the BBC.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/06\/19\/congress-war-powers-military-iran-trump\/\">Democrats are raising war powers concerns (but not vociferously enough) as Trump mulls a military strike on Iran.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/tulsi-gabbard-and-pete-hegseth-are-both-being-cut-out-of-key-decisions-by-trump-reports\/\">Only the best people! Golf cheat Donald Trump has cut both Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth out of key decisions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/us\/politics\/2025\/06\/19\/general-michael-kurilla-trump-hegseth-iran\/\">Meet Mike Kurilla, the \u2018jacked gorilla\u2019 general pushing Trump to strike Iran.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-israel-iran-transgender.html\">Jess Bidgood at NYT looks at what Trump&#8217;s bellicose outbursts have triggered: a MAGA civil war.<\/a> Naturally, <a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2025\/06\/19\/loomer-threatens-to-snitch-on-conservatives-criticizing-trump-in-raging-maga-civil-war\/\">Laura Loomer has taken advantage of the situation to attempt some kind of relevance.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/19\/world\/middleeast\/iran-islamic-republic-regime.html\">NYT&#8217;s Roger Cohen looks at what might happen as Iran&#8217;s regime finds itself with its back against the wall.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/fox-news\/trumps-fox-news-obsession-driving-us-toward-war-iran\">Matt Gertz looks at how Trump\u2019s Fox News obsession is driving the U.S. toward war with Iran.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>STILL DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tsunami of developments in an increasing escalating crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}