{"id":21400,"date":"2026-03-19T08:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=21400"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:53:13","slug":"trumps-war-mideast-in-flames-as-debacle-unfolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/19\/trumps-war-mideast-in-flames-as-debacle-unfolds\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s War: Mideast in Flames as Debacle Unfolds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mess worsens\u2026<\/p>\n<p>NPR: Israel and Iran attack gas facilities in a major escalation that rattles markets &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/19\/nx-s1-5753520\/iran-israel-gas-field-attacks\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hill<\/em>: Trump threatens to \u2018massively blow up\u2019 huge gas field if Iran attacks Qatar again &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5791107-trump-iran-qatar-attacks-conflict-middle-east\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>NY Times<\/em>: Trump Says U.S. and Qatar Not Involved in Strike on Iran\u2019s South Pars Gas Field &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/19\/world\/middleeast\/trump-iran-south-pars-gas-field.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>HuffPo<\/em>: U.S. Intel Official Says Iran&#8217;s Regime Still Intact But Refuses To Discuss Talks With Trump About War &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/congress-tulsi-gabbard-donald-trump-iran-war_n_69bb28cfe4b04fe25a48a4d5?u8b\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>NY Times<\/em>: On Iran, Gabbard Turned Intelligence Duties Over to Trump &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/18\/us\/politics\/tulsi-gabbard-iran-trump.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mess worsens\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21400","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\/21400","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=21400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21402,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21400\/revisions\/21402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}