{"id":87040,"date":"2019-05-15T15:11:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87040"},"modified":"2019-05-15T15:11:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:11:51","slug":"iran-getting-ready-to-sucker-punch-us-or-just-pressuring-us-to-do-things-their-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87040","title":{"rendered":"Iran Getting Ready to Sucker Punch us, or Just Pressuring us to do Things Their Way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_87045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87045\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-87045\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Abraham-Lincoln-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Abraham-Lincoln-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Abraham-Lincoln-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Abraham-Lincoln.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) doing turns. (U.S. Navy\/Juan A. Cubano)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Intelligence has indicated that Iran influenced militias are positioning rockets near U.S. troops in Iraq. Out of precaution, nonessential US government personnel are being ordered out of Iraq. Iran&#8217;s Defense Minister has some words for us.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Haaretz:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iran will defeat the American and Israeli alliance, Iran&#8217;s Minister of Defense Amir Hatami said on Wednesday, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). &#8220;We will defeat the American-Zionist front,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier battle group has arrived outside of the Arabian Gulf. Next on the itinerary, transit through the Strait of Hormuz and into the Arabian Gulf. Given Iran&#8217;s ability to &#8220;deploy drones undetected by our fleet&#8221; in order to &#8220;monitor&#8221; our maritime activities, we can expect fresh video coming from Iran&#8230; Right?<\/p>\n<p>Additional information can be read in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/us-news\/pompeo-visits-russia-as-talk-of-iran-threat-sparks-worries-of-war-1.7244865\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelligence has indicated that Iran influenced militias are positioning rockets near U.S. troops in Iraq. Out &hellip; <a title=\"Iran Getting Ready to Sucker Punch us, or Just Pressuring us to do Things Their Way?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87040\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran Getting Ready to Sucker Punch us, or Just Pressuring us to do Things Their Way?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87046,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87040\/revisions\/87046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}