{"id":313563,"date":"2026-02-23T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=313563"},"modified":"2026-02-22T07:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:09:34","slug":"despite-ongoing-talks-trump-admin-is-obsessed-with-destroying-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/02\/despite-ongoing-talks-trump-admin-is-obsessed-with-destroying-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Ongoing Talks, Trump Admin Is &#8220;Obsessed&#8221; with Destroying Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>20 Feb 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Despite chairing the first meeting of his newly formed Board of Peace yesterday, Trump continues to threaten war against Iran as the Pentagon positions a massive fighting force in the Middle East. Trump said he would give Tehran about two weeks to reach a deal on its nuclear program, but media reports indicate that he could launch an attack within days. Iran maintains its nuclear enrichment program is for peaceful civilian purposes. Journalist Jeremy Scahill says Trump already \u201cused the veneer\u201d of negotiations to attack Iran last year, and that despite ongoing talks between the two countries, he has essentially already decided to launch a new war that could quickly spiral out of control. \u201cI\u2019ve been told by military experts who spent decades working in the Pentagon that there\u2019s a spirit of delusion that has just taken hold in the administration,\u201d says Scahill. \u201cYou have elements here who are absolutely obsessed with Iran and destroying the Islamic Revolution.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeremy Scahill: Despite Ongoing Talks, Trump Admin Is &quot;Obsessed&quot; with Destroying Iran\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/STnRMN13Fj0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 Feb 2026 &#8211; Despite chairing the first meeting of his new Board of Peace yesterday, Trump continues to threaten war against Iran as the Pentagon positions a massive fighting force in the Middle East. He said he would give Tehran about two weeks to reach a deal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[742,88,767,70,481],"class_list":["post-313563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-usa","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313564,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313563\/revisions\/313564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}