{"id":21734,"date":"2026-04-23T01:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-seeks-new-course-in-iran-after-ceasefire-retreat\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:20:21","slug":"trump-seeks-new-course-in-iran-after-ceasefire-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-seeks-new-course-in-iran-after-ceasefire-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump seeks new course in Iran after ceasefire retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has moved into an apparent holding pattern after his latest diplomatic retreat in the stalemate with Iran, trying to find an off-ramp to the war that would allow him to claim victory.&nbsp; Trump unilaterally extended a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday, after backing down from his threats to bomb Iran&rsquo;s civilization into oblivion earlier&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5844119-trump-iran-stalemate-negotiations\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has moved into an apparent holding pattern after his latest diplomatic retreat in the stalemate with Iran, trying to find an off-ramp to the war that would allow him to claim victory.&nbsp; Trump unilaterally extended a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday, after backing down from his threats to bomb Iran&rsquo;s civilization into oblivion earlier&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21734","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\/21734","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=21734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}