{"id":21789,"date":"2026-03-11T19:45:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21789"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:46:00","slug":"the-administration-did-not-expect-iran-to-respond-like-this-even-though-this-was-the-most-reasonable-guess-as-to-what-iran-would-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21789","title":{"rendered":"The administration did not expect Iran to respond like this, even though this was the most reasonable guess as to what Iran would do\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The administration did not expect Iran to respond like this, even though this was the most reasonable guess as to what Iran would do&#8230;<\/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=\"Iranians Feel the War Is \u2018Closing In,\u2019 and Bondi Is Said to Move Because of Threats\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pB935Y_e_sk?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>The administration did not expect Iran to respond like this, even though this was the most reasonable guess as to what Iran would do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pB935Y_e_sk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,221,272,355,314,156,391,170,619,158],"class_list":["post-21789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21790,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21789\/revisions\/21790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}