{"id":22250,"date":"2026-05-04T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-iran-war-has-real-political-risks-but-dont-ignore-its-strategic-payoff\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:22:28","slug":"the-iran-war-has-real-political-risks-but-dont-ignore-its-strategic-payoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-iran-war-has-real-political-risks-but-dont-ignore-its-strategic-payoff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iran War has real political risks \u2014 but don\u2019t ignore its strategic payoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent developments suggest the long-term strategic impact of the war may improve sentiment in the long term.&nbsp;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/5860066-iran-war-middle-east\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent developments suggest the long-term strategic impact of the war may improve sentiment in the long term.&nbsp;&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22250","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\/22250","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=22250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}