{"id":320246,"date":"2025-12-20T06:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=320246"},"modified":"2025-12-21T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:32:09","slug":"amb-chas-freeman-trita-parsi-the-middle-east-you-knew-is-disappearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=320246","title":{"rendered":"Amb. Chas Freeman &#038; Trita Parsi: The Middle East You Knew Is Disappearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dialogue Works \u2013 Dec 19, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R550ehVJYKw?si=pofclmZqRaucFYoR\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R550ehVJYKw\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although their relations with Tehran are far from perfect, there is a growing recognition among the Gulf Arab states that the region\u2019s problems do not originate in Iran. Moreover, according to Trita Parsi, were it not for Hezbollah Israel would have struck Iran in 2006 rather than 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320247,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320246\/revisions\/320247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}