{"id":24302,"date":"2026-07-08T20:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=24302"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:15:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:15:51","slug":"trump-mistakenly-says-islamic-republic-of-japan-instead-of-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=24302","title":{"rendered":"Trump Mistakenly Says \u201cIslamic Republic of Japan\u201d Instead of Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ANKARA:<\/strong> U.S. President Donald Trump made a verbal slip during remarks about Iran, mistakenly referring to the country as the <strong>\u201cIslamic Republic of Japan,\u201d<\/strong> a moment that quickly went viral on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump said that the <strong>\u201cIslamic Republic of Japan\u201d<\/strong> had fired <strong>111 missiles<\/strong> at the U.S. aircraft carrier <strong>USS Abraham Lincoln<\/strong>, adding that all of the missiles had been successfully intercepted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The apparent mix-up between Iran and Japan was immediately noticed by social media users, who widely shared video clips of the incident and commented on the verbal error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remarks came amid heightened tensions between the United States and Iran. Trump also said he was dissatisfied with Iran\u2019s actions, accusing Tehran of launching drone attacks on U.S. vessels. He stated that the United States had carried out strikes on Iranian targets the previous night and warned that further military action could be taken if necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident drew widespread online attention, with many users focusing on the unusual reference to Japan while discussing the broader context of escalating U.S.-Iran tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA: U.S. President Donald Trump made a verbal slip during remarks about Iran, mistakenly referring to the country as the \u201cIslamic Republic of Japan,\u201d a moment that quickly went viral on social media. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump said that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","inline_featured_image":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440","service":"facebook","timestamp":1783523797,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24304,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24302\/revisions\/24304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}