{"id":323378,"date":"2026-02-20T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=323378"},"modified":"2026-02-21T06:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:47:41","slug":"alastair-crooke-war-closer-than-ever-irans-game-changing-retaliation-boxes-trump-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=323378","title":{"rendered":"Alastair Crooke: War Closer Than Ever, Iran&#8217;s GAME CHANGING Retaliation Boxes Trump In"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Danny Haiphong \u2013 YouTube.com Feb 19, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T21RWeiArmc?si=OikvPXuEXrBqOAgT\" 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=T21RWeiArmc\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India was surprised when Pakistan shot down many of its French-made Rafael Fighters during the May 2025 war. This was accomplished using Chinese battle management technology and Iran now has an upgraded version so the US and Israel could be in for some surprises     <\/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":[61,58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323378","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=323378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323379,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323378\/revisions\/323379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}