{"id":26970,"date":"2026-01-27T11:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=26970"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:32:47","slug":"bombing-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=26970","title":{"rendered":"Bombing for democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/26\/iran-prepares-possible-attack-us-navy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAny such attack will not be designed to weaken Iran\u2019s already shattered nuclear programme, the chief target of the 12-day war in June, but to target Iran\u2019s political leadership and bring the protesters angered by falling living standards back into the streets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This article is striking in that in discussing US\/Israel bombing Iran there is not the slightest pretense of a US attack being pre-emptive destruction of an Iranian nuclear program, or any nonsense about drugs &#8211; it&#8217;s just right up front about overthrowing the government. Destruction of the Iranian government is justified because. Because the US and Israel want to do it. There&#8217;s no hint of justification under any sort of international law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: Any such attack will not be designed to weaken Iran\u2019s already shattered nuclear programme, the chief target of the 12-day war in June, but to target Iran\u2019s political leadership and bring the protesters angered by falling living standards back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=26970\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}