{"id":329193,"date":"2026-07-22T07:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329193"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:44:15","slug":"if-the-u-s-expands-the-war-iran-will-be-forced-to-strike-israel-john-mearsheimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329193","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If the U.S. Expands the War, Iran Will Be Forced to Strike Israel&#8221; | John Mearsheimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Military Insight Today \u2013 July 21, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8B9_FKKpQK4?si=jFvbOjEw_rOF6qJV\" 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=8B9_FKKpQK4\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the Iranians don\u2019t want to draw Israel back into the war, says John Mearsheimer. They have enough as it is dealing with the US. That\u2019s why Iran has seemingly little interest in attacking Israel, and Netanyahu is happy to let the US do the fighting <\/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":[61,146,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-iran-u-s-israel-war","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\/329193","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=329193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329194,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329193\/revisions\/329194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}