{"id":70637,"date":"2026-04-01T19:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/despite-trumps-claims-theres-no-indication-irans-regime-has-lost-power-western-officials-and-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:54:48","slug":"despite-trumps-claims-theres-no-indication-irans-regime-has-lost-power-western-officials-and-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/despite-trumps-claims-theres-no-indication-irans-regime-has-lost-power-western-officials-and-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Trump&#8217;s claims, there&#8217;s no indication Iran&#8217;s regime has lost power, Western officials and experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has claimed repeatedly in recent days that the air war on Iran has ousted the regime, but there is no indication that the authoritarian government has lost its grip on power or that successors to assassinated leaders have made a break with the Islamic Republic\u2019s ideology, according to multiple Western officials, U.S. intelligence assessments and regional analysts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has claimed repeatedly in recent days that the air war on Iran has ousted the regime, but there is no indication that the authoritarian government has lost its grip on power or that successors to assassinated leaders have made a break with the Islamic Republic\u2019s ideology, according to multiple Western officials, U.S. &#8230; <a title=\"Despite Trump&#8217;s claims, there&#8217;s no indication Iran&#8217;s regime has lost power, Western officials and experts say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/despite-trumps-claims-theres-no-indication-irans-regime-has-lost-power-western-officials-and-experts-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Despite Trump&#8217;s claims, there&#8217;s no indication Iran&#8217;s regime has lost power, Western officials and experts say\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70637","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=70637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}