{"id":4756,"date":"2025-01-11T19:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T19:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/with-assad-out-of-the-way-will-iran-choose-realpolitik\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T19:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T19:20:30","slug":"with-assad-out-of-the-way-will-iran-choose-realpolitik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/with-assad-out-of-the-way-will-iran-choose-realpolitik\/","title":{"rendered":"With Assad out of the way, will Iran choose realpolitik?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran is at a crossroads &mdash; either embrace &ldquo;realpolitik&rdquo; through practical, realistic negotiations with the West or &ldquo;roll the dice&rdquo; in its quest to become a nuclear power.&nbsp;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/5079588-iran-proxy-hamas-impact\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran is at a crossroads &mdash; either embrace &ldquo;realpolitik&rdquo; through practical, realistic negotiations with the West or &ldquo;roll the dice&rdquo; in its quest to become a nuclear power.&nbsp;&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4756","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\/4756","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=4756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}