{"id":98331,"date":"2019-06-21T02:56:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T00:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/21\/trump-suggests-loose-and-stupid-iranian-officer-attacked-us-drone\/"},"modified":"2019-06-21T02:56:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T00:56:20","slug":"trump-suggests-loose-and-stupid-iranian-officer-attacked-us-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=98331","title":{"rendered":"Trump suggests &#039;loose and stupid&#039; Iranian officer attacked US drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President stopped short of escalating standoff, saying if a person was in the drone \u2018it would have made a big, big difference\u2019Donald Trump has stopped short of escalating the worsening standoff with Iran in the Persian Gulf, suggesting that the shooting down of a US drone could have been carried out by a \u201cloose and stupid\u201d Iranian officer without authorisation from Tehran, and emphasising that the aircraft was unmanned.After meeting with his top national security officials to discuss Wednesday night\u2019s downing of a Global Hawk spy drone, the president declared: \u201cI would imagine it was a general or somebody that made a mistake in shooting that drone down. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jun\/20\/iran-us-drone-attack-trump-response\" target=\"_blank\">Trump suggests &#039;loose and stupid&#039; Iranian officer attacked US drone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President stopped short of escalating standoff, saying if a person was in the drone \u2018it would have made a big, big difference\u2019Donald Trump has stopped short of escalating the worsening standoff with Iran in the Persian Gulf, suggesting that the shooting down of a US drone could have been carried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}