{"id":33566,"date":"2019-07-25T08:34:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=33566"},"modified":"2019-07-25T08:34:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T16:34:32","slug":"obliteration-trump-threatens-iran-with-nuclear-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/25\/obliteration-trump-threatens-iran-with-nuclear-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Obliteration&#8217; \u2013 Trump Threatens Iran With Nuclear Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has threatened to &#8220;obliterate&#8221; parts of Iran if &#8220;anything American&#8221; is attacked by the country. This, combined with &#8220;all options on the table&#8221; clearly suggests the use of nuclear weapons. In an article in today&#8217;s American Conservative, former US Marine and nuclear weapons inspector Scott Ritter shows how last year&#8217;s US Nuclear Posture Review outlines scenarios that make this nightmare a possibility. On today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PYxZ754HZrc\" 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>President Trump has threatened to &#8220;obliterate&#8221; parts of Iran if &#8220;anything American&#8221; is attacked by the country. This, combined with &#8220;all options on the table&#8221; clearly suggests the use of nuclear weapons. In an article in today&#8217;s American Conservative, former US Marine and nuclear weapons inspector Scott Ritter shows how last year&#8217;s US Nuclear Posture [&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-33566","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\/33566","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=33566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33569,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33566\/revisions\/33569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33566"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=33566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}