{"id":205069,"date":"2026-03-23T08:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/scott-bessent-defends-u-s-military-actions-in-iran-sometimes-you-have-to-escalate-to-de-escalate-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:38:23","slug":"scott-bessent-defends-u-s-military-actions-in-iran-sometimes-you-have-to-escalate-to-de-escalate-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/scott-bessent-defends-u-s-military-actions-in-iran-sometimes-you-have-to-escalate-to-de-escalate-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Bessent defends U.S. military actions in Iran: &#039;Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate&#039; &#8211; NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1wFBVV95cUxQUm9HbmVaUUM2RjBhaUNjN0JKM3I1WDBtTnlPR2tDQnU3cUxoOFdrWFRFSHBkWWJzaEhJTkFNZUFSNE9tREJiZ01GMWt3S3BfU0poNHRGR1ZkOVJyTFo1R3ZSTjJJX1pLYmNUeDc1UTVROTNLTXBSclFjMTVWV3lOdFg2MHh3YmJ2YTRQRUtvaW40U1NxUE5uZkp0bFNIR0tRWF9hRFU1NXhQRmNNTmNLdUxaN0JPMF9udWhDeWVqT3E3ODVDZi02NGgzTmFwT0RvbEszaWsydw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Bessent defends U.S. military actions in Iran: &#8216;Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">NBC News<\/font><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1wFBVV95cUxQUm9HbmVaUUM2RjBhaUNjN0JKM3I1WDBtTnlPR2tDQnU3cUxoOFdrWFRFSHBkWWJzaEhJTkFNZUFSNE9tREJiZ01GMWt3S3BfU0poNHRGR1ZkOVJyTFo1R3ZSTjJJX1pLYmNUeDc1UTVROTNLTXBSclFjMTVWV3lOdFg2MHh3YmJ2YTRQRUtvaW40U1NxUE5uZkp0bFNIR0tRWF9hRFU1NXhQRmNNTmNLdUxaN0JPMF9udWhDeWVqT3E3ODVDZi02NGgzTmFwT0RvbEszaWsydw?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Bessent defends U.S. military actions in Iran: &#8216;Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate&#8217;&nbsp;&nbsp;NBC Newssource<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-205069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}