{"id":1709,"date":"2020-09-21T19:27:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T00:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2020-10-14T23:41:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T04:41:16","slug":"1709","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/09\/21\/1709\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smart guy\u2014maybe the Leader is handing out Biden bumper stickers.\u00a0 \u201cAccording to several US officials cited in a New York Times report, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has vetoed any attack that could trigger a confrontation with the Trump administration before Nov. 3.\u201d\u00a0 But please read this headline from today together with the next headline.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelhayom.com\/2020\/09\/21\/nyt-iran-showing-restraint-in-effort-to-make-trump-to-lose-election\">\u201cReport: Iran showing restraint in Gulf in effort to make Trump lose election,\u201d<\/a> AP, Israel Hayom, September 21, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0Per U.S. officials cited by the NYT, Leader Khamenei has vetoed any attack that might trigger a conflict with the Trump administration before election Nov. 3, not wanting overt warfare which could help Trump be re-elected, but has authorized ongoing cyberattacks.\u00a0 And see the contrasting but also true headline, showing Iran\u2019s continuing behavior at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-09\/21\/c_139385822.htm\">\u201cIran says ready for arms exports after termination of UN embargo,\u201d<\/a> Xinhua, September 21, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/south-asia\/nepali-banks-companies-act-as-channels-for-iran-and-china-to-deceive-us-sanctions-report\/articleshow\/78228350.cms\">\u201cReport: N. Korea, Iran Resume Cooperation on Long-range Missile Project,\u201d<\/a> KBS World, September 21, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>A threat.\u00a0 If you make peace, you will get attacked.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/jcpa.org\/article\/normalization-with-israel-accelerates-the-end-of-the-bahrain-regime\">\u201cIran: Normalization with Israel Accelerates the End of the Bahrain Regime,\u201d<\/a> Michael Segall, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 21, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart guy\u2014maybe the Leader is handing out Biden bumper stickers.\u00a0 \u201cAccording to several US officials cited in a New York Times report, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has vetoed any attack that could trigger a confrontation with the Trump administration before Nov. 3.\u201d\u00a0 But please read this headline from today together with the next headline.\u00a0 \u201cReport: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/09\/21\/1709\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}