{"id":30528,"date":"2026-08-23T12:48:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=30528"},"modified":"2026-08-23T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:48:04","slug":"trumps-war-iran-leadership-split-on-way-out-of-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/23\/trumps-war-iran-leadership-split-on-way-out-of-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color:red; font-weight:900;\">TRUMP\u2019S WAR:<\/span> Iran leadership split on way out of mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s complicated\u2026 which is bad news for Donald.<\/p>\n<p>PBS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/irans-president-says-u-s-memorandum-is-best-path-out-of-stalled-war-and-other-middle-east-news\">Iran&#8217;s president on Sunday defended a memorandum of understanding with the United States<\/a> as the best way out of a stalled war while the new head of the Islamic Republic&#8217;s top security body took a more defiant stance. (More at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/irans-president-says-u-s-memorandum-is-best-path-out-of-stalled-war-and-other-middle-east-news\">link<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Guardian: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/23\/iran-new-security-chief-trump-economic-war-enemies-mohsen-rezaei\">Iran\u2019s foreign minister calls threat of new US economic sanctions \u2018desperate\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hill: <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/6045556-iran-warns-middle-east-us-economic-war\/\">Iran warns Middle East neighbors against joining US \u2018economic war\u2019\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AlJazeera: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/8\/23\/can-iran-retaliate-against-countries-that-join-us-economic-war\">\u2026but do they have the juice to retaliate?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hill: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/questions-rise-us-claims-deeper-100000802.html\">Questions rise as US claims deeper control of Strait of Hormuz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/23\/business\/powerus-counter-drone-iran-war.html\">An American Start-Up Is Making Low-Cost Interceptors for the Iran War<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Telegraph: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2026\/08\/22\/iranian-hackers-shut-down-uk-power-plant\/\">Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s complicated\u2026 which is bad news for Donald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30528","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\/30528","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=30528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}