{"id":22610,"date":"2026-07-05T17:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22610"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:57:12","slug":"did-israel-push-trump-into-the-iran-war-iran-the-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22610","title":{"rendered":"Did Israel push Trump into the Iran war? | Iran: the Latest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A regime change war against Iran had a chance of succeeding, but it required both commitment&nbsp;to a longer war and preparing the Iranian opposition on the ground. The Trump administration, despite essentially declaring a regime-change war at the beginning by calling on the Iranian people to soon rise up, did not appear to much help the Iranian opposition and had no stomach for the length of war necessary&nbsp;to give regime change a chance.&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=\"Did Israel push Trump into the Iran war? | Iran: the Latest\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lmNCB7522Yc?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>A regime change war against Iran had a chance of succeeding, but it required both commitment to a longer war and preparing the Iranian opposition on the ground. The Trump administration, despite essentially declaring a regime-change war at the beginning by calling on the Iranian people to soon rise up, did not appear to much help the Iranian opposition and had no stomach for the length of war necessary to give regime change a chance. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lmNCB7522Yc<\/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":[552,431,221,272,355,314,156,194,370,391,2277,1573,170,619,158],"class_list":["post-22610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-john-bolton","tag-middle-east","tag-neocon","tag-realism","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610","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=22610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22611,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610\/revisions\/22611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}