{"id":329953,"date":"2026-08-13T05:34:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329953"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:12:04","slug":"iran-is-not-another-iraq-iran-could-drive-the-u-s-out-of-the-gulf-douglas-macgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329953","title":{"rendered":"Iran Is Not \u201cAnother Iraq\u201d \u2014 Iran Could Drive the U.S. Out of the Gulf | Douglas Macgregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Col Douglas Macgregor &#8212; Battle Zone Report and Combat Analysis Today Aug 12, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sQv0cHvOIuk?si=m_isn7swmqYkahfQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sQv0cHvOIuk\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that America has now demonstrated conclusively that it cannot protect its strategic partners in the Middle East, Iran\u2019s plan to eject the U.S. from the region is entirely feasible. Col. Douglas Macgregor explains<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-iran-u-s-israel-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329953","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=329953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329955,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329953\/revisions\/329955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}