{"id":3682,"date":"2021-09-04T07:06:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T12:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2021-09-05T18:11:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T23:11:55","slug":"3682","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/09\/04\/3682\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So detached from reality?\u00a0 There is a better explanaiton.\u00a0 Is there an alternative to the Taliban?\u00a0 \u201cI know, I\u2019m voting for ISIS-K!\u201d says an Afghan.\u00a0 \u201cHow about Ghani?\u201d another says.\u00a0 \u201cOh, he\u2019s not available.\u201d\u00a0 What this statement from the president of Iran really is appears to be some sort of pretend support for democracy.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-business-united-nations-taliban-378c1fecb932822162491bafaa7f1aae\">\u201cThe Latest: Iran president calls for election in Afghanistan,\u201d<\/a> AP, September 4, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>So, this sort of non-committal statement by Raisi could mean that the ISI will never come back to the negotiating table.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/raisi-iran-ready-to-resume-nuclear-talks-but-without-western-pressure\">\u201cRaisi: Iran ready to resume nuclear talks, but without Western \u2018pressure\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, September 4, \u00a02021.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting.\u00a0 Bloomberg\u2019s reporting was based on incorrect steel numbers from the Regime, per an Iranian official as reported by Iran International.\u00a0 This should encourage Bloomberg to revisit its early report.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/iranintl.com\/en\/world\/despite-government-claims-irans-steel-production-down-50\">\u201cDespite Government Claims, Iran\u2019s Steel Production Down 50%,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, September 4, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So detached from reality?\u00a0 There is a better explanaiton.\u00a0 Is there an alternative to the Taliban?\u00a0 \u201cI know, I\u2019m voting for ISIS-K!\u201d says an Afghan.\u00a0 \u201cHow about Ghani?\u201d another says.\u00a0 \u201cOh, he\u2019s not available.\u201d\u00a0 What this statement from the president of Iran really is appears to be some sort of pretend support for democracy.\u00a0 See &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/09\/04\/3682\/\" 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-3682","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\/3682","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=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3689,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions\/3689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}