{"id":88250,"date":"2025-06-24T15:45:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=88250"},"modified":"2025-06-24T08:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:46:42","slug":"trumps-war-can-us-impose-its-will-on-weakened-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/trumps-war-can-us-impose-its-will-on-weakened-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s War: Can US impose its will on weakened Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"kMDf4bKQrHLTPkDj3JC\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s the plan \u2014 and then there are the unintended consequences. The United States talks diplomacy, then bombs Iran. It suggests the targeting of nuclear sites may have been a one-off, yet leaves the regime uncertain: is regime change the real objective? Following its most significant show of force since the invasion of Iraq, will Washington take ownership of what comes next? For now, the US asserts itself as the sole superpower capable of projecting force in a region where China appears reduced to the role of chief oil customer, and Russia remains preoccupied with Ukraine. And with Israel now striking Tehran\u2019s notorious Evin prison, it\u2019s clear this goes far beyond nuclear ambitions. We\u2019ll look at the options left to a weakened Iran \u2014 and the consequences of toppling a militarised theocracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1076,1539],"tags":[517,975,1003,1033],"class_list":["post-88250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-iran","tag-trump","tag-us","tag-war","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump&#039;s War: Can US impose its will on weakened Iran? - GuardianTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There\u2019s the plan \u2014 and then there are the unintended consequences. 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