{"id":19732,"date":"2026-03-08T03:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/irans-foreign-minister-if-trump-seeks-escalation-thats-what-he-will-get\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T03:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:22:10","slug":"irans-foreign-minister-if-trump-seeks-escalation-thats-what-he-will-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/irans-foreign-minister-if-trump-seeks-escalation-thats-what-he-will-get\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s foreign minister: If Trump &#8216;seeks escalation&#8217; that&#8217;s &#8216;what he will get&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Saturday reupped his warning about retaliation against the U.S. as conflict in the Middle East persists after last week&#8217;s strikes. &ldquo;If [President Trump] seeks escalation, it is precisely what our Powerful Armed Forces have long been prepared for, and what he will get,&rdquo; Aragchi said in a statement shared&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5773071-iran-foreign-minister-donald-trump-conflict-escalation\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Saturday reupped his warning about retaliation against the U.S. as conflict in the Middle East persists after last week&#8217;s strikes. &ldquo;If [President Trump] seeks escalation, it is precisely what our Powerful Armed Forces have long been prepared for, and what he will get,&rdquo; Aragchi said in a statement shared&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732","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=19732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}