{"id":22732,"date":"2026-07-24T15:50:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22732"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:50:30","slug":"america-has-no-good-options-left-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22732","title":{"rendered":"America Has No Good Options Left in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long-term military containment with ships escorting oil tankers&nbsp;through the Strait may be the best among bad options. Future congresses and presidents would need to maintain it though, and it would be expensive.&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=\"America Has No Good Options Left in Iran\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wT6h3-2HZ6k?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>Long-term military containment with ships escorting oil tankers through the Strait may be the best among bad options. Future congresses and presidents would need to maintain it though, and it would be expensive. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wT6h3-2HZ6k<\/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":[552,272,355,314,156,391,259,1056,576,619,158],"class_list":["post-22732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-oil","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22732","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=22732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22733,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22732\/revisions\/22733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}