{"id":59116,"date":"2026-02-26T15:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=59116"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:54:24","slug":"ex-iaea-chief-warns-us-of-horrific-costs-of-war-againstiran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/59116\/ex-iaea-chief-warns-us-of-horrific-costs-of-war-againstiran\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-IAEA chief warns US of horrific costs of war against\nIran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u201cThe US is intensifying the drumbeat of war against Iran,\u201d ElBaradei wrote on X on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Wars, including \u2018wars of choice,\u2019 have horrific costs. That is the reason for the restraints and limitations established by international norms\u2026,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The former director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), however, said Washington had provided\u00a0<strong>\u201c<\/strong>zero explanation of the non-existent legal authority to use force and zero evidence of an \u2018imminent threat\u2019 other than hypothetical scenarios based on possible future intentions\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has markedly escalated his routinely warlike rhetoric concerning Iran, besides ordering significant military buildup in the West Asia region, including around Iran, according to Press TV.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hostile posturing has seen Washington deploy two aircraft carriers as well as numerous warplanes and missile systems in the region.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe US is intensifying the drumbeat of war against Iran,\u201d ElBaradei wrote on X on Wednesday. \u201cAll Wars, including \u2018wars of choice,\u2019 have horrific costs. That is the reason for the restraints and limitations established by international norms\u2026,\u201d he added. The former director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), however, said Washington had provided\u00a0\u201czero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-and-markets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}