{"id":5079,"date":"2023-10-19T05:45:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T10:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2023-10-24T06:47:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T11:47:27","slug":"5079","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/10\/19\/5079\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Tanf, at important crossroads protecting against Iran\u2019s shipments to Syria and Lebanon, attacked again.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/lebanese-iran-aligned-al-mayadeen-reports-attacks-two-us-bases-syria-2023-10-19\">\u201cUS troops in Syria targetted by drones- officials,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 10-19-23.<\/p>\n<p>A failure of the UN, and an important reason the Trump Administration backed out of the Obama Administration nuclear deal with Iran.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/10\/19\/how-significant-is-lifting-of-un-curbs-on-irans-missile-programme\">\u201cHow significant is lifting of UN curbs on Iran\u2019s missile programme?,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 10-19-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/19\/middleeast\/hezbollah-explainer-intl\/index.html\">\u201cWhat to know about Hezbollah, the powerful Iran-backed group on Israel\u2019s border,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 10-19-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mei.edu\/publications\/irans-calculations-israel-hamas-war\">\u201cIran\u2019s calculations in the Israel-Hamas war,\u201d<\/a> Middle East Institute, 10-19-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwarjournal.org\/archives\/2023\/10\/u-s-warship-intercepts-missiles-fired-by-iran-backed-houthis.php\">\u201cU.S. warship intercepts missiles fired by Iran-backed Houthis,\u201d<\/a> Long War Journal, 10-19-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/10\/19\/american-forces-thwart-drone-strikes-bases-syria-00122507\">\u201cAttacks on U.S. troops in Middle East ramp up as Israel conflict escalates,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 10-19-23.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe episodes add a dangerous new element to the fighting in Gaza and deepen fears that Iran might take a more regional\u00a0 approach to fomenting violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Tanf, at important crossroads protecting against Iran\u2019s shipments to Syria and Lebanon, attacked again.\u00a0 \u201cUS troops in Syria targetted by drones- officials,\u201d Reuters, 10-19-23. A failure of the UN, and an important reason the Trump Administration backed out of the Obama Administration nuclear deal with Iran.\u00a0 \u201cHow significant is lifting of UN curbs on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/10\/19\/5079\/\" 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-5079","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\/5079","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=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5095,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions\/5095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}