{"id":17597,"date":"2026-01-12T10:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-us-military-considering-strong-options-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:22:21","slug":"trump-says-us-military-considering-strong-options-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-us-military-considering-strong-options-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US military considering \u2018strong options\u2019 on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump said Sunday the U.S. military is considering &ldquo;strong options&rdquo; on Iran as the country&rsquo;s regime cracks down on growing nationwide protests.&nbsp; When asked on Air Force One whether Iran is crossing a red line, the president told reporters &ldquo;they&rsquo;re starting to, it looks like.&rdquo;&nbsp; &ldquo;There seemed to be some people killed that aren&rsquo;t&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5684015-iran-protests-trump-response\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump said Sunday the U.S. military is considering &ldquo;strong options&rdquo; on Iran as the country&rsquo;s regime cracks down on growing nationwide protests.&nbsp; When asked on Air Force One whether Iran is crossing a red line, the president told reporters &ldquo;they&rsquo;re starting to, it looks like.&rdquo;&nbsp; &ldquo;There seemed to be some people killed that aren&rsquo;t&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}