{"id":19641,"date":"2026-03-22T18:13:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/22\/treasury-secretarys-defense-for-iran-war-plans-sounds-straight-out-of-1984-huffpost\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T18:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:13:50","slug":"treasury-secretarys-defense-for-iran-war-plans-sounds-straight-out-of-1984-huffpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/22\/treasury-secretarys-defense-for-iran-war-plans-sounds-straight-out-of-1984-huffpost\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury Secretary’s Defense For Iran War Plans Sounds Straight Out Of ‘1984’ – HuffPost"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Treasury Secretary’s Defense For Iran War Plans Sounds Straight Out Of ‘1984’<\/a>  HuffPost<\/font><\/li>\n
  2. Treasury secretary defends U.S. military actions in Iran: ‘Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate’<\/a>  NBC News<\/font><\/li>\n
  3. Treasury Secretary Insists Trump Is \u201cJiu-Jitsuing the Iranians\u201d<\/a>  Mother Jones<\/font><\/li>\n
  4. Scott Bessent suggests Trump may \u2018escalate to de-escalate\u2019 Iran war \u2014 says \u201850 days\u2019 of higher prices will be worth it<\/a>  New York Post<\/font><\/li>\n
  5. Bessent says ‘sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate’ when pressed on Iran war<\/a>  USA Today<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Treasury Secretary’s Defense For Iran War Plans Sounds Straight Out Of ‘1984’  HuffPost Treasury secretary defends U.S. military actions in Iran: ‘Sometimes you have to escalate… [more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}