{"id":30347,"date":"2026-08-20T10:27:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=30347"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:28:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:28:34","slug":"iran-war-trump-erupts-as-war-festers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/20\/iran-war-trump-erupts-as-war-festers\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color:red; font-weight:900;\">IRAN WAR:<\/span> Trump erupts as war festers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s getting petulant and threat-y \u2013 again.<\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/live-updates_n_6a82f837e4b0ddd9c1b297ae\/liveblog_6a86371ae4b0f5925a13c26a\">Incensed Trump Calls For &#8216;Economic D-Day&#8217; Against Iran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guardian: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/20\/trump-threatens-crush-iran-economy-war-hormuz\">Trump threatens Iran\u2019s trade partners, as military strikes make way for economic pressure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/20\/world\/middleeast\/iran-us-war-standoff-hormuz.html\">As Iran and US Settle Into an Uneasy Standoff, Who Will Blink First?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Digby: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2026\/08\/20\/jared-kushners-henry-kissinger-cosplay-should-worry-us-all\/\">Jared Kushner\u2019s Henry Kissinger cosplay should worry us all<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PBS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/israels-deadly-gaza-strikes-cast-doubt-on-ceasefire-progress-days-after-kushner-visit\">Israel&#8217;s deadly Gaza strikes cast doubt on ceasefire progress days after Kushner visit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guardian: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/20\/israel-ben-gvir-video-gallows-site-hanging-palestinians\">Israel\u2019s Ben-Gvir posts video of gallows site for hanging Palestinians<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s getting petulant and threat-y \u2013 again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30347","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\/30347","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=30347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}