{"id":33539,"date":"2019-07-22T10:33:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T18:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=33539"},"modified":"2019-07-22T10:33:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T18:33:50","slug":"ron-paul-us-pushing-allies-to-send-warships-toward-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/22\/ron-paul-us-pushing-allies-to-send-warships-toward-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: US Pushing Allies To Send Warships Toward Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest neocon scheme is to push US allies to send warships to join a US-led mission to keep the Strait of Hormuz &#8220;free and clear&#8221; for shipping. In reality it is a trigger for war. Thus far the US has no takers for this clear escalation. Will Bolton&#8217;s brigades begin peeling away EU hold-outs? The US is sending troops to Saudi Arabia and building up a massive airbase. Meanwhile, Iran claims to have broken up a CIA spy ring in country. War drums beating. Watch today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vA2lZoX0tYc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" 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>The latest neocon scheme is to push US allies to send warships to join a US-led mission to keep the Strait of Hormuz &#8220;free and clear&#8221; for shipping. In reality it is a trigger for war. Thus far the US has no takers for this clear escalation. Will Bolton&#8217;s brigades begin peeling away EU hold-outs? [&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-33539","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\/33539","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=33539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33541,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33539\/revisions\/33541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33539"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=33539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}