{"id":20648,"date":"2026-03-27T21:16:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-trump-iran-adviser-says-war-is-headed-for-escalation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:16:54","slug":"former-trump-iran-adviser-says-war-is-headed-for-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-trump-iran-adviser-says-war-is-headed-for-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Trump Iran adviser says war is headed for escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>After accurately forecasting Iran\u2019s response before U.S. strikes, a former White House Iran expert explains why there\u2019s no clear off-ramp \u2014 and why escalation may be next.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After accurately forecasting Iran\u2019s response before U.S. strikes, a former White House Iran expert explains why there\u2019s no clear off-ramp \u2014 and why escalation may be next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648","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=20648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}