{"id":3574,"date":"2020-01-07T12:36:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T16:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2020-01-07T12:40:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T16:40:47","slug":"3574","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=3574","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The World Will Be The Battlefield&#8221; &#8212; President of Council for Foreign Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>CFR President Says &#8220;The World Will Be The Battlefield&#8221; After Iran Escalation<\/h1>\n<h3>It\u2019s not going to be like Iraq 2003.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more-->Paul Joseph Watson<br \/>\nSUMMIT News<\/p>\n<p><strong>The President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard N. Haass says that \u201cthe world will be the battlefield\u201d following a dramatic escalation in tensions between the United States and Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fears of a wider war are rising after Iran\u2019s Quds Force General Qasem Soleimani was killed during an airstrike near Baghdad\u2019s airport.<\/p>\n<p>Haass warned that those who thought any war with Iran would look similar to previous military campaigns were being incredibly naive.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Make no mistake:  any war with Iran will not look like the 1990 Gulf war or the 2003 Iraq wars. It will be fought throughout the region w a wide range of tools vs a wide range of civilian, economic, &amp; military targets. The region (and possibly the world) will be the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardHaass\/status\/1212942760950538240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake: any war with Iran will not look like the 1990 Gulf war or the 2003 Iraq wars. It will be fought throughout the region w a wide range of tools vs a wide range of civilian, economic, &amp; military targets. The region (and possibly the world) will be the battlefield,\u201d tweeted Haass.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-4\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardHaass\/status\/1212942760950538240\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"11\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He went on to assert that developments would lead to Iraqi authorities exerting great pressure on the U.S. to leave their country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One sure result of the US strike is that the era of US-Iraq cooperation is over. The US diplomatic &amp;  mil presence will end b\/c Iraq asks us to depart or our presence is just a target or both. The result will be greater Iranian influence, terrorism, and Iraqi infighting.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardHaass\/status\/1212941221930373121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne sure result of the US strike is that the era of US-Iraq cooperation is over. The US diplomatic &amp; mil presence will end b\/c Iraq asks us to depart or our presence is just a target or both. The result will be greater Iranian influence, terrorism, and Iraqi infighting,\u201d said Haas.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a source described as being in \u201cclose contact\u201d with senior security officials in the Trump Administration said that Iran could respond to the killing of Soleimani by launching a massive cyberattack.<\/p>\n<p>A cyberattack inside the U.S. is \u201cthe most likely way that Iran could retaliate stateside,\u201d according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/us-iran-war-footing-qasem-soleimani-airstrike-13cbe74f-9095-47b4-8d03-85f1e702f447.html\">Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/01\/03\/cfr-president-says-the-world-will-be-the-battlefield-after-iran-escalation\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/01\/03\/cfr-president-says-the-world-will-be-the-battlefield-after-iran-escalation\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CFR President Says &#8220;The World Will Be The Battlefield&#8221; After Iran Escalation It\u2019s not going to be like Iraq 2003.<\/p>\n","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-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}