{"id":61304,"date":"2024-01-20T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/20\/seemingly-disparate-middle-east-conflicts-show-collective-erosion-of-self-restraint"},"modified":"2024-01-20T15:00:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T06:00:51","slug":"seemingly-disparate-middle-east-conflicts-show-collective-erosion-of-self-restraint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61304","title":{"rendered":"Seemingly disparate Middle East conflicts show collective erosion of self-restraint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As pockets of war multiply across region so does the risk that conflict becomes more contagious and intractable<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning the Iranian news website Entekhab ran, without irony, the headline: \u201cTaliban call on Pakistan and Iran to show restraint and urge both sides to settle differences through diplomatic means\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>If proof were needed that a new, more dangerous world order may be upon us, the Taliban cast in the role of advocates for restraint seems conclusive.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/20\/seemingly-disparate-middle-east-conflicts-show-collective-erosion-of-self-restraint\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As pockets of war multiply across region so does the risk that conflict becomes more contagious and intractableOn Thursday morning the Iranian news website Entekhab ran, without irony, the headline: \u201cTaliban call on Pakistan and Iran to show restraint &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1644,3001,3041,3048,448,405,1005,3039,869,212,60,399,61,42,943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaza","category-hamas","category-hezbollah","category-houthis","category-iran","category-iraq","category-israel","category-israel-gaza-war","category-lebanon","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-palestinian-territories","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news","category-yemen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61305,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61304\/revisions\/61305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}