{"id":131917,"date":"2025-06-28T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131917"},"modified":"2025-06-28T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:00:19","slug":"from-iraq-to-iran-the-us-quest-for-israeli-military-dominance-and-its-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131917","title":{"rendered":"From Iraq to Iran: the US quest for Israeli military dominance \u2013 and its fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs Israeli jets and American bombers streaked across Iranian skies earlier this month, the world watched a familiar game plan unfold \u2013 one that had its origins in secret meetings, veiled ambitions and the relentless logic of regional dominance that has haunted the Middle East for generations.<br \/>\nThe process began decades earlier, in the smoke of American air strikes on Iraq and the calculations of US policymakers determined to keep Israel unrivalled.<br \/>\nIt was the late 1990s when a small, bipartisan&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3316150\/iraq-iran-us-quest-israeli-military-dominance-and-its-fallout?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs Israeli jets and American bombers streaked across Iranian skies earlier this month, the world watched a familiar game plan unfold \u2013 one that&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131917"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}