{"id":932565,"date":"2026-09-07T13:18:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/former-defense-secretary-says-iran-emboldened-by-conflict-ignoring-trump-threats\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:18:42","slug":"former-defense-secretary-says-iran-emboldened-by-conflict-ignoring-trump-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/former-defense-secretary-says-iran-emboldened-by-conflict-ignoring-trump-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Defense secretary says Iran \u2018emboldened\u2019 by conflict, ignoring Trump threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday said Iran is being \u201cemboldened\u201d by the ongoing conflict in the region as President Trump keeps reneging on large-scale threats involving attacks on Tehran.\u00a0 \u201cClearly the Iranians have figured this out. They are not reacting to these threats, and they are taking very strategic positions with regard to&#8230; Ashleigh Fields<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/6019115-esper-iran-emboldened-conflict\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday said Iran is being \u201cemboldened\u201d by the ongoing conflict in the region as President Trump keeps reneging on large-scale threats involving attacks on Tehran.\u00a0 \u201cClearly the Iranians have figured this out. They are not reacting to these threats, and they are taking very strategic positions with regard to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":932566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2309,148],"tags":[7080,6221],"class_list":["post-932565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-defense","category-former","tag-defense","tag-former"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}