{"id":218886,"date":"2026-04-10T19:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=218886"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:48:03","slug":"scoop-saudi-defense-minister-says-trump-not-bombing-iran-would-embolden-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=218886","title":{"rendered":"Scoop: Saudi defense minister says Trump not bombing Iran would embolden regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman (KBS) said in a private briefing on Friday in Washington that if President Trump doesn&#8217;t follow through on his threats against Iran, the regime will end up stronger, four sources in the room tell Axios. Why it matters: This is a reversal from the public Saudi talking points cautioning against escalation and from the deep concern Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) expressed to Trump three weeks ago&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/01\/31\/saudi-us-strike-iran-kbs-trump\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman (KBS) said in a private briefing on Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218886-scoop-saudi-defense-minister-says-trump-not-bombing-iran-would-embolden-regime.jpeg",320,320,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218886-scoop-saudi-defense-minister-says-trump-not-bombing-iran-would-embolden-regime-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218886-scoop-saudi-defense-minister-says-trump-not-bombing-iran-would-embolden-regime-300x300.jpeg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218886-scoop-saudi-defense-minister-says-trump-not-bombing-iran-would-embolden-regime.jpeg",320,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218886-scoop-saudi-defense-minister-says-trump-not-bombing-iran-would-embolden-regime.jpeg",320,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218886-scoop-saudi-defense-minister-says-trump-not-bombing-iran-would-embolden-regime.jpeg",320,320,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218886-scoop-saudi-defense-minister-says-trump-not-bombing-iran-would-embolden-regime.jpeg",320,320,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218886-scoop-saudi-defense-minister-says-trump-not-bombing-iran-would-embolden-regime.jpeg",320,320,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218886-scoop-saudi-defense-minister-says-trump-not-bombing-iran-would-embolden-regime.jpeg",320,320,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218886-scoop-saudi-defense-minister-says-trump-not-bombing-iran-would-embolden-regime.jpeg",320,320,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218886","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=218886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/218887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}