{"id":64205,"date":"2019-06-21T11:48:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T11:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=64205"},"modified":"2019-06-21T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T11:48:13","slug":"trump-okays-military-strikes-on-iran-then-pulls-back-from-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/trump-okays-military-strikes-on-iran-then-pulls-back-from-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump okays military strikes on Iran, then pulls back from launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Donald Trump approved but then scrapped strikes against Iranian targets on Thursday after Iran shot down a US drone in what the president termed a \u201cbig mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US was planning to hit \u201ca handful of Iranian targets, like radar and missile batteries\u201d Thursday evening, the newspaper said, citing senior administration officials, but the plan was suddenly aborted in its early stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran said earlier it had recovered parts of a US Global Hawk spy drone in its territorial waters after downing the aircraft in a missile strike, but the Pentagon says it was above international waters when it was hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIran made a very big mistake!\u201d Trump tweeted, before later appearing to dial back tensions.\u201cI find it hard to believe it was intentional, if you want to know the truth,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI think that it could have been somebody who was loose and stupid that did it.\u201dThe president\u2019s mixed message left the world unsure what Washington\u2019s next move would be.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump approved but then scrapped strikes against Iranian targets on Thursday after Iran shot down a US drone in what the president termed a \u201cbig mistake.\u201d The US was planning to hit \u201ca handful of Iranian targets, like radar and missile batteries\u201d Thursday evening, the newspaper said, citing senior administration officials, but the plan [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64207,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64205\/revisions\/64207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}