{"id":1311,"date":"2026-04-01T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/rubio-unironically-says-iran-should-spend-money-on-its-people-not-on-military\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:57:00","slug":"rubio-unironically-says-iran-should-spend-money-on-its-people-not-on-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/rubio-unironically-says-iran-should-spend-money-on-its-people-not-on-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Unironically Says Iran Should Spend Money on Its People, Not on Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/app\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026_04-01-marco-rubio-1200x900.jpg\" \/><br><p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio lectured Iran in interviews this week, saying that the country should be spending money on supporting its people rather than on weapons and militaristic causes \u2014 an ironic statement coming from an administration that has gutted the U.S.\u2019s social safety net while requesting a record-shattering Pentagon budget. \u201cImagine an Iran that, instead of spending their\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/rubio-ironically-says-iran-should-spend-money-on-its-people-not-on-the-military\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\r\n<br><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/rubio-ironically-says-iran-should-spend-money-on-its-people-not-on-the-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link  truthout.org<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Secretary of State Marco Rubio lectured Iran in interviews this week, saying that the country should be spending money on supporting its people rather than on weapons and militaristic causes \u2014 an ironic statement coming from an administration that has gutted the U.S.\u2019s social safety net while requesting a record-shattering Pentagon budget. \u201cImagine an Iran that, instead of spending their\u2026&hellip;","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":75,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}