{"id":225064,"date":"2026-07-17T06:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/europe-today-trump-iran-standoff-tests-the-limits-of-diplomacy\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T06:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:49:01","slug":"europe-today-trump-iran-standoff-tests-the-limits-of-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/europe-today-trump-iran-standoff-tests-the-limits-of-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Today: Trump-Iran standoff tests the limits of diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US and Iran exchange fresh strikes as the Gulf crisis escalates. Europe Today also looks at the EU\u2019s security role in the Horn of Africa, the bloc\u2019s annual Rule of Law Report, Spain\u2019s amnesty ruling, and anticipation builds ahead of the World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/07\/17\/europe-today-middle-east-tensions-deepen-as-europe-turns-to-security-and-the-rule-of-law\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US and Iran exchange fresh strikes as the Gulf crisis escalates. Europe Today also looks at the EU\u2019s security role in the Horn of Africa, the bloc\u2019s annual Rule of Law Report, Spain\u2019s amnesty ruling, and anticipation builds ahead of the World Cup final. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":225065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}