{"id":70858,"date":"2026-04-04T07:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/oil-strait-of-hormuz-and-empty-threats-a-timeline-of-trumps-flip-flopping-on-the-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:05:48","slug":"oil-strait-of-hormuz-and-empty-threats-a-timeline-of-trumps-flip-flopping-on-the-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/oil-strait-of-hormuz-and-empty-threats-a-timeline-of-trumps-flip-flopping-on-the-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil, strait of Hormuz and empty threats: a timeline of Trump\u2019s flip-flopping on the Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the fifth week of the war, Trump continues contradicting himself on its objectives and how Americans are affected<\/p>\n<p>When Donald Trump launched Operation Epic Fury alongside Israel on 28 February, his administration had settled on a set of stated, and broad, objectives: destroy Iran\u2019s missiles, eliminate its navy, prevent a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Over a month later those objectives have multiplied, contracted and contradicted each other.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/04\/timeline-iran-war-trump-contradictions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fifth week of the war, Trump continues contradicting himself on its objectives and how Americans are affected When Donald Trump launched Operation Epic Fury alongside Israel on 28 February, his administration had settled on a set of stated, and broad, objectives: destroy Iran\u2019s missiles, eliminate its navy, prevent a nuclear weapon. Over a &#8230; <a title=\"Oil, strait of Hormuz and empty threats: a timeline of Trump\u2019s flip-flopping on the Iran war\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/oil-strait-of-hormuz-and-empty-threats-a-timeline-of-trumps-flip-flopping-on-the-iran-war\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oil, strait of Hormuz and empty threats: a timeline of Trump\u2019s flip-flopping on the Iran war\">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-70858","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\/70858","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=70858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}