{"id":328948,"date":"2026-07-14T06:14:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=328948"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:35:26","slug":"alastair-crooke-iran-obliterates-us-air-base-himars-trumps-war-imploding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=328948","title":{"rendered":"Alastair Crooke: Iran OBLITERATES US Air Base &#038; HIMARS, Trump&#8217;s War IMPLODING"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Danny Haiphong \u2013 YouTube.com July 13, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GbDdTq4nrrM?si=ICJTHYAegvFrjccx\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GbDdTq4nrrM\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The currant escalation between the U.S. and Iran is the result of a classic Trump miscalculation, says Alastair Crooke. He thought that being preoccupied with Khamenei\u2019s massive funeral, Iran wouldn\u2019t notice as the US established a way through the Strait of Hormuz. He was wrong and now US forces in the region are paying the price    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":322280,"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-328948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328948","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=328948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328949,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328948\/revisions\/328949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/322280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}