{"id":74119,"date":"2026-05-28T13:55:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/dire-strait-trumps-bid-to-end-iran-war-before-midterms-risks-republican-anger\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:55:44","slug":"dire-strait-trumps-bid-to-end-iran-war-before-midterms-risks-republican-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/dire-strait-trumps-bid-to-end-iran-war-before-midterms-risks-republican-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Dire strait? Trump\u2019s bid to end Iran war before midterms risks Republican anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration in a bind as it faces mounting economic costs ahead of midterms from Iran war<\/p>\n<p>The terms of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/28\/donald-trump-shares-draft-iran-peace-agreement-with-israel-and-other-allies\">a purported 60-day deal to negotiate peace in the Iran war <\/a>have trapped the Trump administration between mounting economic costs ahead of midterm elections and anger from Republican hawks who accuse the US government of surrendering to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The public rift between Trump and Senate Republicans over his shift toward diplomacy with Iran has also been matched within his administration, where the dovish JD Vance and traditional neoconservative Marco Rubio have been forced to pirouette between Trump\u2019s policies as he shifts to exit the war as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/28\/trump-iran-republicans-anger-midterms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration in a bind as it faces mounting economic costs ahead of midterms from Iran war The terms of a purported 60-day deal to negotiate peace in the Iran war have trapped the Trump administration between mounting economic costs ahead of midterm elections and anger from Republican hawks who accuse the US government of &#8230; <a title=\"Dire strait? Trump\u2019s bid to end Iran war before midterms risks Republican anger\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/dire-strait-trumps-bid-to-end-iran-war-before-midterms-risks-republican-anger\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dire strait? Trump\u2019s bid to end Iran war before midterms risks Republican anger\">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-74119","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\/74119","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=74119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}