{"id":55184,"date":"2026-03-13T12:43:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=55184"},"modified":"2026-03-13T12:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:43:35","slug":"senior-us-official-to-cnn-our-assessment-was-that-if-we-struck-iran-they-would-not-close-the-strait-of-hormuz-so-trump-did-not-plan-for-its-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=55184","title":{"rendered":"SENIOR US OFFICIAL TO CNN:  Our assessment was that if we struck Iran they would not close the Strait of Hormuz, so Trump did not plan for its consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a1\ufe0fBREAKING <\/p>\n<p>SENIOR US OFFICIAL TO CNN:<\/p>\n<p>Our assessment was that if we struck Iran, they would not close the Strait of Hormuz, so we did not plan for its consequences <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9bVZv1kTcx\">pic.twitter.com\/9bVZv1kTcx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Iran Observer (@IranObserver0) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IranObserver0\/status\/2032395283481375066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}