{"id":36,"date":"2016-12-03T00:32:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T00:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2016-12-03T00:32:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T00:32:02","slug":"more-offensive-role-for-irans-conventional-army-following-trumps-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/more-offensive-role-for-irans-conventional-army-following-trumps-election\/","title":{"rendered":"More offensive role for Iran\u2019s conventional army following Trump\u2019s election"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38\" src=\"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Iranian_army-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Iranian Army parade formation\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Iranian_army-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Iranian_army-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Iranian_army.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iranian Army parade formation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Persians continue to prepare for an even more aggressive role in the Middle East. Especially with the election of Donald Trump, his appointment of retired United States Marine Corps general <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Mattis\">James &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221; Mattis<\/a> for Secretary of Defense, and the incoming American administration&#8217;s stated 180 degree reversal in posture dealing with them.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debka.com\/newsupdate\/19111\/More-offensive-role-for-Iran%E2%80%99s-conventional-army-following-Trump%E2%80%99s-election\">More offensive role for Iran\u2019s conventional army following Trump\u2019s election<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=48&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=books&amp;banner=0HX1M2P8DDZ20D689R82&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=c5b898aafccbf76f9d26f25f19131ba5&amp;t=salemsmailbox&amp;tracking_id=salemsmailbox\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Persians continue to prepare for an even more aggressive role in the Middle East. Especially with the election of Donald Trump, his appointment of retired United States Marine Corps general James &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221; Mattis for Secretary of Defense, and the incoming American administration&#8217;s stated 180 degree reversal in posture dealing with them. Read More: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/more-offensive-role-for-irans-conventional-army-following-trumps-election\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More offensive role for Iran\u2019s conventional army following Trump\u2019s election&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-ezekial-38-39","category-persiairan","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}