{"id":583570,"date":"2026-04-03T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583570\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:58:09","slug":"us-fighter-jet-shot-down-by-iran-one-crew-member-rescued-iranian-speaker-mocks-search-trump-wants-1-5-trillion-defence-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583570\/","title":{"rendered":"US fighter jet shot down by Iran, one crew member rescued; Iranian Speaker mocks search; Trump wants $1.5 trillion defence budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been dubbed the Pottery Barn rule: you break it, you own it. That\u2019s what then US secretary of state Colin Powell warned his president, George W. Bush, ahead of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It has become an aphorism of American foreign policy regarding the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s approach, as many analysts have noted over the past fortnight, has a different flavour: we broke it, you fix it. As he eyes a potential exit from the war in Iran, he is <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/north-america\/four-takeaways-from-trump-s-address-no-end-date-for-iran-war-no-direct-criticism-of-nato-20260402-p5zkyd.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">cajoling US allies<\/a> into resolving the unfinished business \u2013 chiefly, reopening the critical Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/54c20ab423393004a1677c235d08b5be95b912a1.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/> Photo:  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not for us,\u201d he said this week. \u201cThat\u2019ll be for France, that\u2019ll be for whoever\u2019s using the strait \u2026 there\u2019s no reason for us to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that is not the only outstanding item. The Iranian regime retains 440 kilograms of highly enriched uranium, believed to be buried underground, that could be the starting point for a reborn nuclear program. Moreover, the regime itself survives \u2013 albeit wounded \u2013 and with a new appreciation for the havoc it can wreak in the strait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been dubbed the Pottery Barn rule: you break it, you own it. That\u2019s what then US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-583570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}