{"id":29747,"date":"2026-08-11T10:13:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=29747"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:20:47","slug":"trumps-war-iran-continues-to-mess-with-weak-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/11\/trumps-war-iran-continues-to-mess-with-weak-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s War: Iran continues to mess with weak Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This should go over well on Election Day\u2026<\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/10\/us\/politics\/trump-new-strategy-middle-east.html\">Trump Wants to Move On From the Middle East. It\u2019s Not Letting Him.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Semafor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/08\/11\/2026\/trump-calls-for-iran-reparations-in-the-latest-sticking-point-in-peace-talks\">US-Iran peace talks at impasse as Trump calls for reparations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WSJ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/irans-mysterious-ruler-signals-a-hard-line-on-trump-with-new-leadership-4ae054ea\">Iran\u2019s Mysterious Ruler Signals a Hard Line on Trump With New Leadership<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-iran-saudi-turkey-pakistan_n_6a79ea90e4b01ec886910e81\">Trump\u2019s Iran Debacle Chalks Up Yet Another Loss, With No End In Sight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/us-assesses-irans-priority-shifted-nuclear-weapons-strait-hormuz-rcna591715\">Gee, ya think so? Team Trump finally realizes that Iran\u2019s priority shifted from nuclear weapons to Strait of Hormuz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AP: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-hormuz-strait-war-24-july-2026-78c2dbf538f6e61ab816479a4d9bdd85\">US military says it fired on another merchant vessel trying to breach its blockade of Iranian ports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guardian: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/11\/pete-hegseth-pentagon-picks-trump-family-business\">Pete Hegseth\u2019s Pentagon picks raise questions over Trump family business ties<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should go over well on Election Day\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29747","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\/29747","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=29747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}