{"id":3587,"date":"2021-08-18T07:29:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2021-08-21T17:56:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T22:56:26","slug":"3587","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/08\/18\/3587\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/\u201cTehran\u2019s Shiite regime has strategic, economic, ideological, and ecological reasons for backing Sunni extremists.\u201d\">\u201cWhy Iran Will Welcome the Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan,\u201d<\/a> Shelly Kittleson, Foreign Policy, August 18, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cTehran\u2019s Shiite regime has strategic, economic, ideological, and ecological reasons for backing Sunni extremists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the United States out of Afghanistan, Iran will be able to give greater supplies of money and arms to the Taliban and al Qaeda \u2014 elements of support that these terrorists could use against the Afghan people and even to launch another attack on the West. The risks speak to a key reason why the U.S. should have stayed in Afghanistan.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/iran-benefits-from-taliban-takeover\">\u201cIran benefits from Taliban takeover,\u201d<\/a> Jackson Richman, op-ed, Washington Examiner, August 18, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy Iran Will Welcome the Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan,\u201d Shelly Kittleson, Foreign Policy, August 18, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cTehran\u2019s Shiite regime has strategic, economic, ideological, and ecological reasons for backing Sunni extremists.\u201d \u201cWith the United States out of Afghanistan, Iran will be able to give greater supplies of money and arms to the Taliban and al Qaeda \u2014 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/08\/18\/3587\/\" 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-3587","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\/3587","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=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3606,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions\/3606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}