{"id":326141,"date":"2026-04-17T06:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=326141"},"modified":"2026-04-19T07:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:26:58","slug":"seyed-m-marandi-u-s-naval-blockade-ground-invasion-of-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=326141","title":{"rendered":"Seyed M. Marandi: U.S. Naval Blockade &#038; Ground Invasion of Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Glenn Diesen \u2013 April 16, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BwUL5ftAi38?si=9eM-NoLO8JC6F0bl\" 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=BwUL5ftAi38\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Marandi, who attended talks in Islamabad recently, offers an insiders insight into the proceedings. For example, the consensus among Iranian delegates was that the Zionist lobby was dictating terms to US negotiators. Indeed, at one point during the talks U.S. Vice President Vance was on the phone \u201cconsulting\u201d with Netanyahu<\/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":[61,58,51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326141","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=326141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326150,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326141\/revisions\/326150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}