{"id":68364,"date":"2026-03-07T05:59:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T10:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/trumps-ever-changing-rationale-for-war-on-iran-how-the-story-has-shifted\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T05:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T10:59:39","slug":"trumps-ever-changing-rationale-for-war-on-iran-how-the-story-has-shifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/trumps-ever-changing-rationale-for-war-on-iran-how-the-story-has-shifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s ever-changing rationale for war on Iran \u2013 how the story has shifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regime change, nuclear threat \u2013 or something else? US officials seem unable to land on one coherent reason for war<\/p>\n<p>When the United States launched Operation Epic Fury last Saturday, the Trump administration had a major communications question to figure out: how to explain to the American public, Congress, and the world why it had just started a war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>During war time, talking points and propaganda reflexively fly in every direction, but the Trump administration still hasn\u2019t been able to land on one coherent answer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/07\/trump-rationale-war-iran-story\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regime change, nuclear threat \u2013 or something else? US officials seem unable to land on one coherent reason for war When the United States launched Operation Epic Fury last Saturday, the Trump administration had a major communications question to figure out: how to explain to the American public, Congress, and the world why it had &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s ever-changing rationale for war on Iran \u2013 how the story has shifted\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/trumps-ever-changing-rationale-for-war-on-iran-how-the-story-has-shifted\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s ever-changing rationale for war on Iran \u2013 how the story has shifted\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}