{"id":21470,"date":"2026-03-22T10:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=21470"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:04:05","slug":"trumps-war-iran-calls-sundowning-donnies-bluff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/22\/trumps-war-iran-calls-sundowning-donnies-bluff\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s War: Iran Calls Sundowning Donnie&#8217;s Bluff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, this happened overnight\u2026<\/p>\n<p>After Trump threatened to blow Iran&#8217;s power infrastructure back to, say, the 14th century (details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/israel-threatens-surge-attacks-iran-britain-condemns-tehran-targeting-us-uk-air-base_n_69be882be4b0284f9be0a37e?ezc\">here<\/a>), Iran called his bluff, warneing of \u2018irreversible damage\u2019 to regional infrastructure if their power plants are attacked (details <a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/middle-east\/2026\/03\/22\/iran-warns-of-irreversible-damage-to-regional-infrastructure-if-power-plants-attacked\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile\u2026<\/p>\n<p>NBC: Cuba&#8217;s deputy foreign minister says its military is preparing for possible &#8216;military aggression&#8217; from the U.S. &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/cuba\/cuba-foreign-minister-military-aggression-us-oil-trump-rubio-rcna264568\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Raw Story<\/em>: \u2018Trump is cooked\u2019: Fears of \u2018collapse\u2019 spread as war sparks shortage of critical resource &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/iran-war-2676572005\/?utm_source=Iterable&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Mar.22.2026_1.11pm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BBC: Sudan drone attack on key hospital killed 64 people during Eid, WHO says &#8211; details <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/08f0Q#selection-597.0-597.72\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian<\/em>: About 200 injured in Iranian missile strikes near nuclear facility in Israel &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/21\/wounded-iranian-missile-strikes-southern-israel\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian<\/em>: \u2018Nobody else is responsible\u2019: Trump to blame for Iran crisis, ex-CIA chief says &#8211; Panetta savages Donnie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/22\/trump-iran-leon-panetta\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, there are new developments in the reported shredding of Epstein Files &#8211; <em>Daily Beast<\/em> has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-doj-shredded-huge-pile-of-jeffrey-epstein-prison-docs-after-death-in-new-york-jail\/\">deets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, this happened overnight\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21470","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\/21470","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=21470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21483,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21470\/revisions\/21483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}