{"id":22833,"date":"2026-08-06T20:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22833"},"modified":"2026-08-06T20:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:39:21","slug":"u-s-forces-are-terrorizing-irans-new-shadow-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22833","title":{"rendered":"U.S Forces are Terrorizing Iran&#8217;s New Shadow Army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US has been putting heavy financial pressure on Iraq to crack down on Iraqi Iranian proxies who try to stop oil from flowing through pipelines through Iraq, bypassing Hormuz.&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=\"U.S Forces are Terrorizing Iran&amp;apos;s New Shadow Army\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bYARu_qigL0?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 US has been putting heavy financial pressure on Iraq to crack down on Iraqi Iranian proxies who try to stop oil from flowing through pipelines through Iraq, bypassing Hormuz. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bYARu_qigL0<\/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":[552,272,355,314,156,836,391,576,1332,158],"class_list":["post-22833","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-iraq","tag-middle-east","tag-oil","tag-pipeline","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22833","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=22833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22834,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22833\/revisions\/22834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}