{"id":22471,"date":"2026-06-09T22:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22471"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:36:25","slug":"why-a-weakened-iran-remains-dangerous-with-behnam-ben-taleblu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22471","title":{"rendered":"Why a Weakened Iran Remains Dangerous, with Behnam Ben Taleblu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran, being weaker than the US, responds more violently and aggressively to deter the US and Israel, who both may be deterred while taking much less damage.&nbsp;<\/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=\"Why a Weakened Iran Remains Dangerous, with Behnam Ben Taleblu\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vfib4SWI1js?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>Iran, being weaker than the US, responds more violently and aggressively to deter the US and Israel, who both may be deterred while taking much less damage. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vfib4SWI1js<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,272,355,314,156,194,391,170,619],"class_list":["post-22471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-trump","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22471","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=22471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22472,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22471\/revisions\/22472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}