{"id":150347,"date":"2025-06-23T16:53:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=150347"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:53:57","slug":"trump-bombs-iran-huge-escalation-of-war-making-nuclear-weapons-more-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/06\/23\/trump-bombs-iran-huge-escalation-of-war-making-nuclear-weapons-more-likely\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump bombs Iran: Huge escalation of war, making nuclear weapons more likely"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\">\n<h2 id=\"text-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport\">Geopolitical Economy Report<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"badge  badge-style-type-verified style-scope ytd-badge-supported-renderer style-scope ytd-badge-supported-renderer\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Verified\">\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p class=\"style-scope ytd-badge-supported-renderer\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump ordered direct US airstrikes on Iran, after helping Israel start a war of aggression. Tehran already said it would retaliate against US targets. There are more than 40,000 US troops in West Asia (the Middle East), and dozens of military bases, which could be hit. US intelligence agencies previously said Iran was not developing nuclear weapons, but this US war will now actually make them likely. Ben Norton explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump bombs Iran: Huge escalation of war, making nuclear weapons more likely\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qIR1QHbdrcE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geopolitical Economy Report \u00a0 \u00a0 Donald Trump ordered direct US airstrikes on Iran, after helping Israel start a war of aggression. Tehran already said it would retaliate against US targets. There are more than 40,000 US troops in West Asia (the Middle East), and dozens of military bases, which could be hit. US intelligence agencies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}