{"id":329956,"date":"2026-08-13T05:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329956"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:12:59","slug":"is-the-pentagon-preparing-nuclear-strike-options-will-iran-surrender-scott-ritter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329956","title":{"rendered":"Is the Pentagon Preparing Nuclear Strike Options \u2014 Will Iran Surrender? | Scott Ritter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Scott Ritter \u2013 Battle Zone Report Aug 12, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T2dyLLL9knw?si=73e63nb29_1AwjhR\" 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=T2dyLLL9knw\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump doesn\u2019t have the conventional military capacity to compel Iran to do anything. However, he does have nuclear weapons at his disposal and the U.S. military is in a dire predicament with Iran. Scott Ritter asks if the U.S. would use nukes to resolve the situation? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":265308,"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-329956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/329956","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=329956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329957,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329956\/revisions\/329957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}