{"id":2816,"date":"2021-03-22T23:23:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T04:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2021-03-27T07:09:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T12:09:40","slug":"2816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/03\/22\/2816\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What normal country would allow another country to attack its shipping?\u00a0 Iran is not normal.\u00a0 Those shipments are crucial to maintaining the Crescent.\u00a0 It is dozens of ships over two years.\u00a0 Fascinating article revealing some intelligence and covert operations.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/israel-attacked-dozens-of-tankers-iran-lost-billions-1.9633373\">\u201cMuch More Than 12: Israel Attacked Dozens of Tankers, Iran Lost Billions,\u201d<\/a> Amos Harel, Haaretz, March 22, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-is-increasingly-obsessed-with-defeating-saudi-forces-in-yemen-662775\">\u201cIran is increasingly obsessed with defeating Saudi forces in Yemen,\u201d<\/a> Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post, March 22, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/intpolicydigest.org\/blog\/iran-is-using-hezbollah-as-a-potent-weapon\">\u201cIran is Using Hezbollah as a Potent Weapon,\u201d<\/a> Shaheer Ahmad, International Policy Digest Blog, March 22, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting proposition, that Iran is holding an entire country hostage.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/opinion\/iran-holds-lebanon-hostage-as-its-economy-collapses\">\u201cIran holds Lebanon hostage as its economy collapses,\u201d<\/a> Hussein, Aboubakr Mansour, JNS, March 22, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/03\/23\/these-6-charts-show-how-sanctions-are-crushing-irans-economy.html\">\u201cThese 6 charts show how sanctions are crushing Iran\u2019s economy,\u201d<\/a> Abigail Ng, CNBC, March 22 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What normal country would allow another country to attack its shipping?\u00a0 Iran is not normal.\u00a0 Those shipments are crucial to maintaining the Crescent.\u00a0 It is dozens of ships over two years.\u00a0 Fascinating article revealing some intelligence and covert operations.\u00a0 \u201cMuch More Than 12: Israel Attacked Dozens of Tankers, Iran Lost Billions,\u201d Amos Harel, Haaretz, March &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/03\/22\/2816\/\" 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-2816","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\/2816","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=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}