{"id":31146,"date":"2018-05-22T14:03:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T22:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=31146"},"modified":"2018-05-22T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T22:03:16","slug":"pompeos-bombastic-iran-threats-a-sign-of-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/22\/pompeos-bombastic-iran-threats-a-sign-of-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo&#8217;s Bombastic Iran Threats: A Sign of Weakness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech to the neoconservative Heritage Foundation in which he made 12 US demands of the Iranian government. The demands were in places laughably inaccurate \u2013 demanding Iran close a heavy water reactor that has been dismantled for years \u2013 that one wonders whether it was just incompetence or whether they simply don&#8217;t care. The US is backing itself into a corner over Iran, risking losing its European allies and further emboldening Russia and China. What&#8217;s next? Tune in to today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q4Lbp0MidqE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech to the neoconservative Heritage Foundation in which he made 12 US demands of the Iranian government. The demands were in places laughably inaccurate \u2013 demanding Iran close a heavy water reactor that has been dismantled for years \u2013 that one wonders whether it was just incompetence or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-31146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31149,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31146\/revisions\/31149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31146"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}