{"id":222005,"date":"2026-04-24T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=222005"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:48:00","slug":"trump-might-want-boots-on-the-ground-in-iran-just-not-american-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=222005","title":{"rendered":"Trump might want \u201cboots on the ground\u201d in Iran. Just not American ones."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, President Donald Trump spoke with Iraqi and Iranian Kurdish leaders, reportedly offering \u201cextensive US aircover\u201d and logistical support for armed groups to cross the border from Iraq into Iran to push out regime forces. As one of these leaders put it, his message was that \u201cKurds must choose a side in this battle [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/482018\/kurds-iran-trump-komala\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, President Donald Trump spoke with Iraqi and Iranian Kurdish leaders, reportedly offering \u201cextensive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222005-trump-might-want-boots-on-the-ground-in-iran-just-not-american-ones.jpg",1200,623,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222005-trump-might-want-boots-on-the-ground-in-iran-just-not-american-ones-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222005-trump-might-want-boots-on-the-ground-in-iran-just-not-american-ones-300x156.jpg",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222005-trump-might-want-boots-on-the-ground-in-iran-just-not-american-ones-768x399.jpg",640,333,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222005-trump-might-want-boots-on-the-ground-in-iran-just-not-american-ones-1024x532.jpg",640,333,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222005-trump-might-want-boots-on-the-ground-in-iran-just-not-american-ones.jpg",1200,623,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222005-trump-might-want-boots-on-the-ground-in-iran-just-not-american-ones.jpg",1200,623,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222005-trump-might-want-boots-on-the-ground-in-iran-just-not-american-ones-1024x532.jpg",1024,532,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222005-trump-might-want-boots-on-the-ground-in-iran-just-not-american-ones-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222005-trump-might-want-boots-on-the-ground-in-iran-just-not-american-ones-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=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222005","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=222005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}