{"id":329105,"date":"2026-07-19T07:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T07:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329105"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:50:03","slug":"july-18-iran-takes-its-gloves-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329105","title":{"rendered":"July 18 &#8211; Iran Takes its Gloves Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>HenryMakow.com \u2013 July 18, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><em>Please send urls and comments to hmakow@gmail.com\u00a0 This page is updated throughout the day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran&#8217;s ultimate goal is to undermine the petrodollar by destroying America&#8217;s allies in the Gulf, including Saudi Arabia. It can do this by destroying their water desalination plants.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Urgent Warning: To neighboring countries, Iran&#8217;s restraint is over<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING: Iran has directly targeted another Kuwaiti power generation and water desalination plant, triggering a massive fire, in response to a U.S. strike that destroyed Iran&#8217;s Jask desalination plant and cut off drinking water to around 20 villages, according to Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second tit-for-tat exchange targeting power generation and water desalination infrastructure in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrymakow.com\/2026\/07\/july-18---doomsday-iran-takes-.html\">Continues \u2026\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran can bring the US to its knees by destroying water desalination plants in the Gulf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":329107,"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":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran-u-s-israel-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329105","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=329105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329106,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329105\/revisions\/329106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/329107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}