The Italian PM has walked a tightrope between Europe and the US. But the Iran war \u2013 and Trump\u2019s attacks on her \u2013 have changed everything<\/p>\n
The news last week that the Trump administration sounded out Fifa, world football\u2019s governing body, about replacing Iran with Italy<\/a> at this year\u2019s World Cup jolted insiders and pundits on the beautiful game. It has also cast fresh light on the unusual and evolving relationship between Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni<\/a>.<\/p>\n In recent weeks, the Italian prime minister\u2019s standing as the darling of the US right has been imperilled by an unexpected rift<\/a> with the Oval Office. Trump dramatically distanced himself from his Italian ally over her refusal to join US attacks on Iran in an interview. \u201cI\u2019m shocked at her. I thought she had courage<\/a>, but I was wrong,\u201d the US president told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.<\/p>\n Riccardo Alcaro is head of research at IAI, Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Italian PM has walked a tightrope between Europe and the US. But the Iran war \u2013 and Trump\u2019s attacks on her \u2013 have changed everything The news last week that the Trump administration sounded out Fifa, world football\u2019s governing body, about replacing Iran with Italy at this year\u2019s World Cup jolted insiders and pundits … 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-72736","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\/72736","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=72736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}