{"id":329270,"date":"2026-07-25T05:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329270"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:11:39","slug":"iran-invasion-plan-fails-trump-considers-using-nuclear-weapons-col-douglas-macgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329270","title":{"rendered":"Iran Invasion Plan Fails \u2014 Trump Considers Using Nuclear Weapons | Col. Douglas Macgregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Analysis24 \u2013 July 24, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ArrMWDK5zZU?si=cEbfYcqT6khvBN2R\" 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=ArrMWDK5zZU\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump was encouraged to strike Iran with promises of an easy win. However, the Iranian Army\u2019s fighting ability, the sheer size of Iran (bigger than Western Europe) and its geography, must be making Trump rue the day he allowed himself to be talked into the attack. An outright US defeat is now a real possibility. Will Trump consider using nuclear weapons to avoid this? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":325780,"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":[58,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-iran-u-s-israel-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329270","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=329270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329271,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329270\/revisions\/329271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/325780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}