{"id":5600,"date":"2026-07-13T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/?p=5600"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:43:31","slug":"trump-is-a-toxic-ally-his-war-with-iran-is-once-again-spreading-across-the-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/trump-is-a-toxic-ally-his-war-with-iran-is-once-again-spreading-across-the-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is a toxic ally. His war with Iran is once again spreading across the Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the war in Iran spreads again to Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait and Donald Trump announces a 20 per cent toll on all ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, it\u2019s time the Gulf states realised the US president is a dangerous ally, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the war in Iran spreads again to Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait and Donald Trump announces a 20 per cent toll on all ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, it\u2019s time the Gulf states realised the US president is a dangerous ally, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5601,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions\/5601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}