{"id":371499,"date":"2018-07-31T01:36:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T00:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/plans-for-attack-us-plans-for-striking-iran\/"},"modified":"2018-07-31T01:36:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T00:36:31","slug":"plans-for-attack-us-plans-for-striking-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/plans-for-attack-us-plans-for-striking-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans for Attack: US Plans for Striking Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The world of the terrifying hypothetical is programmatically standard in the Trump White House.\u00a0 Periods of tense calm are followed by careless flights of fury, digs and remonstrations.\u00a0 Mortal enemies become amenable comrades; reliable allies turn into irresponsible skinflints who ought to fork out more for their defence.<\/p>\n<p>For all that swirling chaos, the one constant since the 2016 election campaign for President Donald Trump is the Iranian bogey, that defender of the Shiites, the theocratic Republic.\u00a0 The fear of Iran\u2019s aspirations is an endless quarry for domestic consumption, tied, as it were with propitiating the ever hungry Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>On July 23, Trump gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1021234525626609666\">Twitter offering<\/a> to Iranian President Rouhani, written in all-caps promising singular, untold of consequences of suffering should Iran ever threaten the United States again.\u00a0 \u201cWe are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death.\u00a0 Be cautious!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This shout of indignation was the less than measured response to remarks made by Rouhani to Iranian diplomats: \u201cAmerica should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace and war with Iran is the mother of all wars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the outburst came the milder reflection.\u00a0 Before a convention in Kansas City, a cooling breeze was blowing.\u00a0 \u201cI withdrew the United States from the horrible one-sided Iran nuclear deal, and Iran is not the same country anymore,\u201d came Trump\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/07\/plans-for-attack-us-plans-for-striking-iran\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world of the terrifying hypothetical is programmatically standard in the Trump White House.\u00a0 Periods of tense calm are followed by careless flights of fury, digs and remonstrations.\u00a0 Mortal enemies become amenable comrades; reliable allies turn into irresponsible skinflints who ought to fork out more for their defence. For all that swirling chaos, the one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}