{"id":5347,"date":"2023-12-14T23:55:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T05:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2023-12-18T00:32:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T06:32:30","slug":"5347","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/12\/14\/5347\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funny how the existing task force against pirates has been working just fine, but if it expands and Iran is under the microscope with the Houthis suddenly there would be huge problems.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/iran-warns-us-red-sea-maritime-task-force-extraordinary-problems\">\u201cIran warns a US-backed Red Sea maritime task force would create \u2018extraordinary problems\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Washington Examiner, 12-14-23.<\/p>\n<p>But this \u201cprogress\u201d has taken forever\u2014since 1979!\u00a0 And is a reminder about the unfair mandatory hijab against women.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/female-soccer-fans-iran-allowed-175029234.html\">\u201cFemale soccer fans in Iran allowed into Tehran stadium for men&#8217;s game. FIFA head praises progress,\u201d<\/a> AP, 12-14-23.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark and Germany attacks thwarted.\u00a0 Most likely acting under Regime direction or encouragement, because they wouldn\u2019t do so without.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/international\/europe\/1702581894-german-authorities-thwart-attack-by-hamas-linked-members-on-jewish-institutions\">\u201cGerman authorities thwart attack by Hamas-linked members on Jewish institutions,\u201d<\/a> i24, 12-14-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny how the existing task force against pirates has been working just fine, but if it expands and Iran is under the microscope with the Houthis suddenly there would be huge problems.\u00a0 See \u201cIran warns a US-backed Red Sea maritime task force would create \u2018extraordinary problems\u2019,\u201d Washington Examiner, 12-14-23. But this \u201cprogress\u201d has taken forever\u2014since &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/12\/14\/5347\/\" 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-5347","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\/5347","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=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5358,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}