{"id":372858,"date":"2018-08-10T18:21:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T17:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-attack-on-iran-yet\/"},"modified":"2018-08-10T18:21:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T17:21:01","slug":"no-attack-on-iran-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-attack-on-iran-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"No Attack on Iran, Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Donald Trump is in enough trouble, legally and politically, to need a war \u2013 or so one would think. Sanctions just don\u2019t cut it.<\/p>\n<p>He has a serviceable enemy at hand too, Iran.<\/p>\n<p>American elites have long had it in for the Islamic Republic. They have many reasons, but high on the list is a point of honor: years after it happened, they still want payback for \u201cthe hostage crisis,\u201d the government supported humiliation that revolutionary Iranian students inflicted upon the American Empire in the final 444 days of the Carter administration. Nearly everything disappears down the memory hole in \u201cthe United States of Amnesia\u201d \u2013 except affronts to American authority, which are never forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>The broader American public doesn\u2019t care much for Iran either; the idea that the country is full of terrorists and led by demonic Ayatollahs is deeply entrenched.<\/p>\n<p>There is an Iranian-American lobby, led by people too articulate and thoughtful to make much difference in a political culture dominated by mind-numbing cable networks and Twitter. If it had more rich backers, it might nevertheless have some influence. As it is, its cultural and political impact is slight, and its effect on elections is nil.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, were Trump to start a war against Iran, or to let Israel go at their \u201cexistential threat\u201d du jour, there would be plenty of voters covering his back and many egging him on.<\/p>\n<p>The question therefore arises: with the majority of Americans despising him, with the law&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/08\/10\/no-attack-on-iran-yet\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is in enough trouble, legally and politically, to need a war \u2013 or so one would think. Sanctions just don\u2019t cut it. He has a serviceable enemy at hand too, Iran. American elites have long had it in for the Islamic Republic. They have many reasons, but high on the list is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372858","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\/372858","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}