{"id":1579,"date":"2025-06-23T22:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2025-06-23T22:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:28:06","slug":"middle-east-latest-trump-scrambles-to-dig-himself-out-of-stupid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/23\/middle-east-latest-trump-scrambles-to-dig-himself-out-of-stupid-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East latest: Trump scrambles to dig himself out of stupid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 6PM, former reality show host Donald Trump announced that a short-term cease-fire between Israel and Iran has been arranged, though there was no independent confirmation through reliable news media. It looks like an effort to either extract himself from a supposedly bold, decisive strike on Iran that did little to eliminate that nation&#8217;s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a busy day. Late this morning East Coast time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/06\/23\/israel-iran-live-updates-us-trump\/\">Iran attacked US military base in Qatar<\/a>, and Trump said there were no deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Choreography! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jun\/23\/israel-iran-war-live-updates-us-trump-regime-change-middle-east-gaza-latest-news\">Trump had a heads-up from Iran on today&#8217;s attack on a US military base in Qatar.<\/a> That seems to be a factor in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/06\/23\/world\/iran-trump-israel-news\">Trump saying it\u2019s &#8220;time for peace.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trouble in antisemitic paradise: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/proud-boys-slam-trump-for-his-attack-on-iran_n_685968aae4b03149323a4da7\">the Proud Boys are not happy with Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crazy continues &#8211; but just might be calming down a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","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=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}