{"id":229316,"date":"2026-02-03T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/02\/03\/never-mind-the-bloodbath-trump-turns-to-direct-talks-with-iran-over-nukes\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:23:08","slug":"never-mind-the-bloodbath-trump-turns-to-direct-talks-with-iran-over-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/02\/03\/never-mind-the-bloodbath-trump-turns-to-direct-talks-with-iran-over-nukes\/","title":{"rendered":"Never mind the bloodbath? Trump turns to direct talks with Iran over nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>One month after the US captured Nicolas Maduro, is Washington trying its Venezuela template on Iran? Not the part where special forces swoop for foreign leaders. Rather the part where the regime and its apparatus can stay so long as Washington gets what it wants. In the case of Iran, maximum pressure and Donald Trump\u2019s initial promise to protesters that \u201chelp is on the way\u201d seems to be morphing into art of the deal-style nuclear bargaining.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One month after the US captured Nicolas Maduro, is Washington trying its Venezuela template on Iran? Not the part where special forces swoop for foreign leaders. Rather the part where the regime and its apparatus can stay so long as Washington gets what it wants. In the case of Iran, maximum pressure and Donald Trump\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-229316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}