{"id":374442,"date":"2018-08-22T18:34:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T17:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-war-against-iran-would-be-disastrous-for-trump\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T18:34:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T17:34:27","slug":"presstv-us-war-against-iran-would-be-disastrous-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-war-against-iran-would-be-disastrous-for-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018US war against Iran would be disastrous for Trump\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump is under \u201ctremendous pressure\u201d from war hawks in Washington to take military action against Iran, which would be politically \u201cdisastrous\u201d for his administration, says an American military and political analyst.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s \u201ca lot of pushing against Donald Trump to do something of a military nature toward Iran,\u201d said James Jatras, a former US Senate foreign policy analyst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think he would move forward with any aggressive action because it would be disastrous for him and his administration, but he\u2019s under tremendous pressure here in Washington,\u201d Jatras told Press TV on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Trump unilaterally scrapped a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and reinstated its sanctions against the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Besides withdrawing from the deal, Washington had also threatened the Islamic Republic with the \u201cstrongest sanctions in history\u201d as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/07\/23\/568975\/US-Trump-Iran-pressure-campaign\">military action<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian officials said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/22\/571951\/US-war-Trump-Iran-James-Jatras\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump is under \u201ctremendous pressure\u201d from war hawks in Washington to take military action against Iran, which would be politically \u201cdisastrous\u201d for his administration, says an American military and political analyst. There\u2019s \u201ca lot of pushing against Donald Trump to do something of a military nature toward Iran,\u201d said James Jatras, 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-374442","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\/374442","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=374442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}