{"id":328724,"date":"2026-07-07T05:46:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=328724"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:44:22","slug":"iran-has-an-ultimate-weapon-that-u-s-fears-attack-again-and-we-will-strangle-you-scott-ritter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=328724","title":{"rendered":"Iran Has an Ultimate Weapon That U.S. Fears \u2014 \u201cAttack Again, and We Will Strangle You\u201d |Scott Ritter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A giant billboard reading \u2018The Strait of Hormuz remains closed\u2019 at the Revolution Square in Tehran<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TCC YT \u2013 July 7, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iFHdyq80ER8?si=thKXr5Y2sj6oltWC\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iFHdyq80ER8\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Gulf War the U.S. was able to project its power and ensure that Strait of Hormuz remained open. However, as Scott Ritter explains, things have changed dramatically since then and now Iran can use the Strait as a weapon against the U.S.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":326007,"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-328724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328724","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=328724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328727,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328724\/revisions\/328727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/326007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}