{"id":25861,"date":"2026-06-15T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=25861"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:46:02","slug":"trumps-war-not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/06\/15\/trumps-war-not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s War: not with a bang but a whimper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the &#8220;deal&#8221; is for real, Trump is the big loser.<\/p>\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/06\/15\/deal-with-iran-trump-settled-much-less-than-he-set-out-get\/\">Trump sought to break Iran\u2019s regime. He settled for reopening Hormuz.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/06\/15\/world\/iran-war-trump-us-deal\">Challenges loom in claimed US-Iran framework<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AP: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/israel-challenges-iran-us-deal_n_6a2fb3b6e4b04478a0610946?origin=home-latest-news-unit\">Defense Minister Says Israel Won\u2019t Withdraw From Land Seized In Lebanon, Syria And Gaza<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/latest-news-live-updates_n_6a268329e4b0a2296d1b65dc\/liveblog_6a2f7855e4b07679090d9c92\">Obama Offers His Perspective On A Potential Iran Deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Raw Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/donald-trump-iran-deal-hoodwink\/\">Analyst astounded by Trump&#8217;s latest hoodwink &#8216;deal&#8217; with Iran: &#8216;How lame is that?&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mediaite: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/accomplished-nothing-critics-trash-trumps-boasting-about-great-iran-deal\/\">\u2018Accomplished Nothing\u2019: Critics Trash Trump\u2019s Boasting About \u2018Great\u2019 Iran Deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/us-iran-deal_n_6a18c0a8e4b0457678ea8c45?bc\">President Donald Trump claimed Sunday that his administration has reached a peace deal with Iran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the &#8220;deal&#8221; is for real, Trump is the big loser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25861","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\/25861","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=25861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}