{"id":1357,"date":"2025-06-21T11:45:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/israels-war-on-iran-decades-in-the-making\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T11:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:45:50","slug":"israels-war-on-iran-decades-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/israels-war-on-iran-decades-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s war on Iran \u2013 decades in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Israel\u2019s war on Iran was one that many have expected, and yet with nuclear talks between the United States and Iran ongoing, few saw it coming. Propaganda from the Netanyahu government and credulous reporting in the Western media have played a major part in how we got here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributors:<br \/> <\/strong>Narges Bajoghli \u2013 Author, Iran Reframed<br \/> Matt Duss \u2013 Executive Vice President, Center for International Policy<br \/> Assal Rad \u2013 Non-Resident Fellow, Arab Center Washington DC<br \/> Mohammad Ali Shabani \u2013 Editor, Amwaj Media<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"on-our-radar\">On our radar<\/h2>\n<p>As Israeli media cheerlead for the war on Iran, military censors are tightening their grip on local and foreign media outlets alike. Ryan Kohls reports.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"chris-hedges-on-the-media-coverage-of-israel-s-war-on-iran\">Chris Hedges on the media coverage of Israel\u2019s war on Iran<\/h2>\n<p>The war on Iran feels eerily familiar \u2013 from justifications that hold no water to the uncritical reporting in the media. Chris Hedges joins us to unpack the unsettling parallels with the 2003 Iraq War.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featuring:<\/strong><br \/> Chris Hedges \u2013 Former Middle East Bureau Chief, The New York Times<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s war on Iran was one that many have expected, and yet with nuclear talks between the United States and Iran ongoing, few saw it coming. Propaganda from the Netanyahu government and credulous reporting in the Western media have played a major part in how we got here. Contributors: Narges Bajoghli \u2013 Author, Iran Reframed &#8230; <a title=\"Israel\u2019s war on Iran \u2013 decades in the making\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/israels-war-on-iran-decades-in-the-making\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Israel\u2019s war on Iran \u2013 decades in the making\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}