{"id":3598,"date":"2021-08-20T20:04:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T01:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2021-08-22T07:53:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T12:53:46","slug":"3598","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/08\/20\/3598\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/iran-child-marriages\/31420642.html\">\u201cIran Reports Increase In Child Marriages,\u201d<\/a> RFE\/RL, August 20, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iranintl.com\/en\/world\/europe-says-iran-creating-%E2%80%98facts-ground%E2%80%99-amid-paused-nuclear-talks\">\u201cEurope Says Iran Creating \u2018facts on the ground\u2019 Amid Paused Nuclear Talks,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, August 20, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iranintl.com\/en\/world\/europe-says-iran-creating-%E2%80%98facts-ground%E2%80%99-amid-paused-nuclear-talks\">\u201cEurope Says Iran Creating \u2018facts on the ground\u2019 Amid Paused Nuclear Talks,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, August 20, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Only Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and UAE recognized the Taliban the first time in power.\u00a0 Now, who will do so?\u00a0 To Iran\u2019s credit, it never did (thinking pragmatically).\u00a0 This time Saudi won\u2019t, and certainly not UAE.\u00a0 But will China?\u00a0 It is a growing superpower and wants the resources of Afghanistan, and to oppose the U.S.\u00a0 How will this play into Iran\u2019s revolutionary regime desire to stay alive?\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-south-asia-11451718\">\u201cWho are the Taliban?,\u201d<\/a> BBC, August 19, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0And see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/us-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal\/who-will-be-first-country-recognize-taliban\">\u201cWho Will Be the First Country to Recognize the Taliban?,\u201d<\/a> Margaret Besheer, VOA, August 20, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran Reports Increase In Child Marriages,\u201d RFE\/RL, August 20, 2021. \u201cEurope Says Iran Creating \u2018facts on the ground\u2019 Amid Paused Nuclear Talks,\u201d Iran International, August 20, 2021. \u201cEurope Says Iran Creating \u2018facts on the ground\u2019 Amid Paused Nuclear Talks,\u201d Iran International, August 20, 2021. Only Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and UAE recognized the Taliban the first &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/08\/20\/3598\/\" 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-3598","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\/3598","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=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3612,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions\/3612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}