{"id":97903,"date":"2026-07-20T14:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-iran-is-one-of-the-most-powerful-countries\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:42:15","slug":"trump-iran-is-one-of-the-most-powerful-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-iran-is-one-of-the-most-powerful-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Iran Is &#8220;One Of The Most Powerful Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> An overlooked line from President Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/07\/16\/watch_live_trump_teases_really_really_big_news_in_thursday_primetime_address.html\">speech on Thursday<\/a> was this reference to Iran as &#8220;one of the most powerful countries&#8221; in the world.  He listed how long previous wars have lasted, including the long period of American &#8220;advisors&#8221; to reach 19 years in Vietnam, and said about the current conflict with Iran: &#8220;We are in this operation&#8230; against one of the most powerful countries, for 32 days.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/07\/19\/trump_iran_is_one_of_the_most_powerful_countries.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An overlooked line from President Trump&#8217;s speech on Thursday was this reference to Iran as &#8220;one of the most powerful countries&#8221; in the world. He listed how long previous wars have lasted, including the long period of American &#8220;advisors&#8221; to reach 19 years in Vietnam, and said about the current conflict with Iran: &#8220;We are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2012,261,90,9258,5395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}