{"id":5433,"date":"2020-07-05T17:57:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T17:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=5433"},"modified":"2020-07-05T17:57:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T17:57:20","slug":"war-with-iran-why-conflict-in-the-gulf-would-be-no-easy-victory-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=5433","title":{"rendered":"War with Iran: why conflict in the Gulf would be no easy victory for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions in the Gulf have escalated\u00a0following Thursday\u2019s downing of a US drone by Iran, with Donald Trump saying Tehran \u201cmade a very big mistake\u201d and revealing he was moments away from launching a retaliatory strike.<\/p>\n<p>Iran claims the unmanned aircraft had been on a spying mission and was within its airspace, with Foreign Minister Javad Zarif saying he would take the complaint that the US \u201cencroaches on our territory\u201d to the United Nations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both sides insist they are not looking for military conflict, but are simultaneously talking tough on the damage they could inflict &#8211; Mr\u00a0Trump insisting that the US would &quot;obliterate&quot; Iran, and Iran&#8217;s armed forces cautioning that a move against them would ignite&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"registration-wall__headline\">Register for free to read this article, or log in to your Telegraph account<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRegister<\/p>\n<p>\t<svg class=\"login-default-icon user-signin-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 1792 1792\">\n\t\t<g>\n\t\t\t<path d=\"M1797,1680l-96,112H453c0-56,0-57.3,0-113l1236,1V145.5V112H456V0h1228l113,110V1680z M1238,894l-505,505l-55-57l224-393H5\n\t\t\t\tl0-111h897L678,446l55-56L1238,894z\"\/>\n\t\t<\/g>\n\t<\/svg><br \/>\nLog in<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.miugolf.com\/index.php?route=product\/special' title='Golf special'>Golf special<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions in the Gulf have escalated\u00a0following Thursday\u2019s downing of a US drone by Iran, with Donald Trump saying Tehran \u201cmade a very big mistake\u201d and revealing he was moments away from launching a retaliatory strike. Iran claims the unmanned aircraft had been on a spying mission and was within its airspace, with Foreign Minister Javad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}