{"id":17656,"date":"2026-01-04T07:36:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=17656"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:36:56","slug":"international-order-or-law-of-the-jungle-egyptian-american-author-warns-iraq-scenario-is-repeating-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/01\/04\/international-order-or-law-of-the-jungle-egyptian-american-author-warns-iraq-scenario-is-repeating-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"International order or law of the Jungle? Egyptian-American author warns Iraq scenario is repeating in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Bassem Raafat Muhammad Youssef, an Egyptian-American writer and analyst, has remarked, in response to Washington&#8217;s attack on Caracas ordered by Donald Trump, that the Iraq scenario is once again repeating in Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Youssef stated that the objective of this scenario is the oil, gas, and mineral resources belonging to the Venezuelan people, which the U.S. aims to seize control over. He sardonically added to Trump: &#8220;This is madness; we truly live under the law of the jungle.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. attack has been condemned by numerous countries, international organizations, and prominent figures, labeling it illegal and shameful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her most recent remarks, Kamala Harris, Trump\u2019s opponent in the election, sharply criticized his actions regarding Venezuela, stating that American families will bear the cost of this move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She wrote on X: &#8220;The president puts military forces at risk, spends billions, destabilizes the region, and provides no legal authority, no exit plan, and no benefits for the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, U.S. military forces carried out operations in Venezuela yesterday under the pretext of combating drug trafficking, transferring the Venezuelan president and his wife to New York for trial, with their hands bound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Bassem Raafat Muhammad Youssef, an Egyptian-American writer and analyst, has remarked, in response to Washington&#8217;s attack on Caracas ordered by Donald Trump, that the Iraq scenario is once again repeating in Venezuela. Youssef stated that the objective of this scenario is the oil, gas, and mineral resources belonging to the Venezuelan people, which the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17658,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17656\/revisions\/17658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}