{"id":74489,"date":"2017-06-07T21:04:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T01:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74489"},"modified":"2017-06-07T21:05:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T01:05:45","slug":"trump-vs-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74489","title":{"rendered":"Trump vs. Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Woodland, WA<br \/>\nJune 7, 2017<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>President Trump signaled his embrace of Israel&#8217;s desire to increase the<br \/>\nisolation of Iran during his recent trip to the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>His large arms sale to Saudi Arabia combined with the formation<br \/>\nof the Arab NATO to &#8220;fight terrorism&#8221; along with the demonization of<br \/>\nIran has been followed by the effort to punish Qatar for saying nice<br \/>\nthings about Iran and today&#8217;s attacks in Iran on the parliament and<br \/>\nKhomeini&#8217;s shrine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/06\/07\/isil-terrorists-attack-iranian-parliament-in-tehran\/\">http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/06\/07\/isil-terrorists-attack-iranian-parliament-in-tehran\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These escalations represent a serious increase in regional tensions<br \/>\nand portend the continuation of Neocon policies under this new<br \/>\nAdministration rather than the changes promised during Trump&#8217;s<br \/>\npresidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>With Trump himself taking credit for the Qatar-GCC split, there can be<br \/>\nlittle doubt what the real agenda is or if his declared intention to avoid<br \/>\nthe perils of regime change interventions has been abandoned.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2017\/06\/06\/trump-takes-credit-for-gulf-split-with-qatar-a-key-us-ally\/\">http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2017\/06\/06\/trump-takes-credit-for-gulf-split-with-qatar-a-key-us-ally\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And with the US launching more air strikes on Assad&#8217;s forces in Syria,<br \/>\nit is clear that Trump is an agent of the Deep State what ever his level of<br \/>\nunderstanding of the dynamics involved. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/06\/07\/u-s-launches-airstrike-on-pro-government-forces-in-syria\/\">http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/06\/07\/u-s-launches-airstrike-on-pro-government-forces-in-syria\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}