{"id":323144,"date":"2026-02-15T08:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T08:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=323144"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:30:14","slug":"alastair-crooke-the-powerful-forces-pushing-trump-into-an-unwinnable-war-v-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=323144","title":{"rendered":"Alastair Crooke: The Powerful Forces Pushing Trump into an Unwinnable War v Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Daniel David \u2013 Deep Dive Feb 14, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZP6QOPsWDTM?si=1AtJPjMdAW3q5eWL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZP6QOPsWDTM\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former British diplomat Alastair Crooke warns that Netanyahu has set a trap for Trump. If he insists on drawing out negotiations with Iran, Israel will strike and then the US will have no option but to join the fray. If he doesn&#8217;t, the Zionist-owned and controlled media that put Trump into power will destroy him<\/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":[61,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323144","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=323144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323156,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323144\/revisions\/323156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}