{"id":19254,"date":"2010-04-19T09:02:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T09:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pentagon_chief_raises_threat_of_attack_as_iran_taunts_us_with_missile_displ\/"},"modified":"2010-04-19T09:02:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T09:02:33","slug":"pentagon_chief_raises_threat_of_attack_as_iran_taunts_us_with_missile_displ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19254","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon chief raises threat of attack as Iran taunts US with missile display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon was ratcheting up pressure for military action against Iran last night as America\u2019s top uniformed official said for the first time that a strike on nuclear targets would \u201cgo a long way\u201d\u009d towards delaying Tehran\u2019s uranium enrichment programme.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks by Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were his strongest yet in support of a strategy that both the Pentagon and the Obama Administration still regard as a last resort and possibly a recipe for a regional war.<\/p>\n<p>They came as President Ahmadinejad taunted the US with a potent display of missile technology, while a leaked top-secret memo by Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, forced the White House to insist that it was preparing for all contingencies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/article7101161.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon was ratcheting up pressure for military action against Iran last night as America\u2019s top uniformed official said for the first time that a strike on nuclear targets would \u201cgo a long way\u201d\u009d towards delaying Tehran\u2019s uranium enrichment programme.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19254\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,143,144,564,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}