{"id":2501,"date":"2021-01-27T08:08:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2021-02-02T09:16:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T15:16:59","slug":"2501","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/01\/27\/2501\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moderndiplomacy.eu\/2021\/01\/27\/irans-position-on-karabakh-war-tehran-competes-for-the-hearts-of-azerbaijanis\">\u201cIran\u2019s Position on Karabakh War: Tehran Competes for the Hearts of Azerbaijanis,\u201d<\/a> Mher Sahakyan, Modern Diplomacy, January 27, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/iran-threatens-take-tel-aviv-israel-follows-new-military-plans-1564927\">\u201cIran Threatens to Take Out Tel Aviv if Israel Follows Through With New Military Plans,\u201d<\/a> Tom O\u2019Connor, Newsweek, January 27, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s working.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/world\/mid-east\/israel-launches-psychological-war-against-iran-top-general-says\">\u201cIsrael launches &#8216;psychological war&#8217; against Iran, top general says,\u201d<\/a> AFP, Daily Sabah, January 27, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/457428\/Iran-s-largest-commercial-port-to-be-constructed-in-Jask\">\u201cIran\u2019s largest commercial port to be constructed in Jask,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, January 27, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moderndiplomacy.eu\/2021\/01\/27\/irans-position-on-karabakh-war-tehran-competes-for-the-hearts-of-azerbaijanis\">\u201cIran\u2019s Position on Karabakh War: Tehran Competes for the Hearts of Azerbaijanis,\u201d<\/a> Mher Sahakyan, Modern Diplomacy, January 27, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/iran-threatens-take-tel-aviv-israel-follows-new-military-plans-1564927\">\u201cIran Threatens to Take Out Tel Aviv if Israel Follows Through With New Military Plans,\u201d<\/a> Tom O\u2019Connor, Newsweek, January 27, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/world\/mid-east\/israel-launches-psychological-war-against-iran-top-general-says\">\u201cIsrael launches &#8216;psychological war&#8217; against Iran, top general says,\u201d<\/a> AFP, Daily Sabah, January 27, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Excellent point\u2014\u201cThis confuses the US into thinking that the region is endemically dysfunctional and impossible to fix.\u201d\u00a0 This author is exactly correct.\u00a0 There is no reason the Middle East can be peaceful, economically strong, and even have forms of democracy for its peoples.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1799591\">\u201cIran\u2019s regional chess game exposes US confusion,&#8221;<\/a> Nadim Shehadi, Arab News, January 27, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran\u2019s Position on Karabakh War: Tehran Competes for the Hearts of Azerbaijanis,\u201d Mher Sahakyan, Modern Diplomacy, January 27, 2021. \u201cIran Threatens to Take Out Tel Aviv if Israel Follows Through With New Military Plans,\u201d Tom O\u2019Connor, Newsweek, January 27, 2021. I guess it&#8217;s working.\u00a0 \u201cIsrael launches &#8216;psychological war&#8217; against Iran, top general says,\u201d AFP, Daily &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/01\/27\/2501\/\" 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-2501","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\/2501","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=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}