{"id":4617,"date":"2023-09-26T00:04:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T05:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=4617"},"modified":"2023-09-30T00:06:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T05:06:23","slug":"4617","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/09\/26\/4617\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For goods and pilgrims.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/historic-iraq-iran-railway-link-ready-18-months-iraq-transport-adviser-2023-09-26\">\u201cHistoric Iraq-Iran railway link ready in 18 months -Iraq transport adviser,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 9-26-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-760482\">\u201cIran denies missile base blast after mystery explosion rocks western city,\u201d<\/a> Jerusalem Post, 9-26-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/09\/25\/2023\/inside-irans-influence-operation\">\u201cInside Iran\u2019s influence operation,\u201d<\/a> Semafor, 9-26-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/iranian-leader-said-to-okay-direct-talks-with-us-on-reviving-nuke-deal\">\u201cIranian leader said to okay direct talks with US on reviving nuke deal,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 9-26-23.\u00a0\u00a0According to this story (not denied yet by the Regime), this report by UK-based Amwaj.media claims backchannel contacts already lowering tensions, with Tehran seeking to pick up negotiations where they left off before collapse in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For goods and pilgrims.\u00a0 \u201cHistoric Iraq-Iran railway link ready in 18 months -Iraq transport adviser,\u201d Reuters, 9-26-23. \u201cIran denies missile base blast after mystery explosion rocks western city,\u201d Jerusalem Post, 9-26-23. \u201cInside Iran\u2019s influence operation,\u201d Semafor, 9-26-23. \u201cIranian leader said to okay direct talks with US on reviving nuke deal,\u201d Times of Israel, 9-26-23.\u00a0\u00a0According to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/09\/26\/4617\/\" 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-4617","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\/4617","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=4617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4618,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions\/4618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}