{"id":233241,"date":"2026-06-15T09:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=233241"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:54:45","slug":"is-the-iran-war-turning-into-trumps-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=233241","title":{"rendered":"Is the Iran war turning into Trump\u2019s Iraq?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How closely does President Donald Trump\u2019s war in Iran compare with America\u2019s last conflict in the Middle East?\u00a0 Both the Iran war and the 2003 US invasion of Iraq have paired conventional American military dominance with shifting, ambiguous objectives. And both feature an American president desperate to declare the mission accomplished.\u00a0&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/podcasts\/484995\/iran-war-donald-trump-iraq-parallels-2003\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How closely does President Donald Trump\u2019s war in Iran compare with America\u2019s last conflict in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/233241-is-the-iran-war-turning-into-trumps-iraq.jpg",1200,623,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/233241-is-the-iran-war-turning-into-trumps-iraq-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/233241-is-the-iran-war-turning-into-trumps-iraq-300x156.jpg",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/233241-is-the-iran-war-turning-into-trumps-iraq-768x399.jpg",640,333,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/233241-is-the-iran-war-turning-into-trumps-iraq-1024x532.jpg",640,333,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/233241-is-the-iran-war-turning-into-trumps-iraq.jpg",1200,623,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/233241-is-the-iran-war-turning-into-trumps-iraq.jpg",1200,623,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/233241-is-the-iran-war-turning-into-trumps-iraq-1024x532.jpg",1024,532,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/233241-is-the-iran-war-turning-into-trumps-iraq-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/233241-is-the-iran-war-turning-into-trumps-iraq-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\/233241","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=233241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}