{"id":215154,"date":"2026-03-19T22:57:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=215154"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:57:59","slug":"why-are-we-going-to-war-former-u-s-middle-east-officials-say-trump-has-no-clear-plan-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=215154","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why Are We Going to War?&#8221;: Former U.S. Middle East Officials Say Trump Has &#8220;No Clear Plan&#8221; on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the U.S. and Israel continue their bombardment of Iran and the conflict spreads throughout the region, we speak with two former U.S. government officials with experience in Middle East policy. Hala Rharrit is a career diplomat who resigned from the State Department in 2024 to protest the Biden administration\u2019s Gaza policy&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2026\/3\/5\/iran_state_defense\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the U.S. and Israel continue their bombardment of Iran and the conflict spreads throughout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215154-why-are-we-going-to-war-former-us-middle-east-officials-say-trump-has-no-clear-plan-on-iran.jpg",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215154-why-are-we-going-to-war-former-us-middle-east-officials-say-trump-has-no-clear-plan-on-iran-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215154-why-are-we-going-to-war-former-us-middle-east-officials-say-trump-has-no-clear-plan-on-iran-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215154-why-are-we-going-to-war-former-us-middle-east-officials-say-trump-has-no-clear-plan-on-iran-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215154-why-are-we-going-to-war-former-us-middle-east-officials-say-trump-has-no-clear-plan-on-iran-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215154-why-are-we-going-to-war-former-us-middle-east-officials-say-trump-has-no-clear-plan-on-iran-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215154-why-are-we-going-to-war-former-us-middle-east-officials-say-trump-has-no-clear-plan-on-iran.jpg",1920,1080,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215154-why-are-we-going-to-war-former-us-middle-east-officials-say-trump-has-no-clear-plan-on-iran-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215154-why-are-we-going-to-war-former-us-middle-east-officials-say-trump-has-no-clear-plan-on-iran-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215154-why-are-we-going-to-war-former-us-middle-east-officials-say-trump-has-no-clear-plan-on-iran-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">BREAKING NEWS<\/a>","tag_info":"BREAKING NEWS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}