{"id":5420,"date":"2023-12-29T19:59:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T01:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5420"},"modified":"2023-12-30T22:41:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T04:41:58","slug":"5420","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/12\/29\/5420\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What this means, along with the recent targeted killing of IRGC General Mousavi in Syria, is that (1) Israel is attempting to remove IRGC leadership is a much more open and forceful way\u2014these are some of the persons enabling Hezbollah to right now sporadically attack Israel from Lebanon (they are most of Iran&#8217;s eastern Syria IRGC leaders), and (2) most likely that Iran, not an irrational actor but a revolutionary one, will respond in a forceful way.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/israel-at-war\/1703860029-alleged-israeli-airstrike-on-damascus-airport-killed-11-irgc-chiefs-report\">\u201cAlleged Israeli airstrike on Damascus airport killed 11 IRGC chiefs \u2013 report,\u201d<\/a> i24NEWS, 12-29-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/un-rights-chief-deplores-execution-of-4-people-in-iran-urging-halt-to-further-executions\/3095812\">\u201cUN rights chief deplores execution of 4 people in Iran, urging halt to further executions,\u201d<\/a> AA, 12-29-23.<\/p>\n<p>Best article I\u2019ve seen on literacy\/illiteracy rate in the country.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/irannewsupdate.com\/news\/society\/irans-literacy-rate-a-tale-of-disparity\">\u201cIran\u2019s Literacy Rate A Tale of Disparity,\u201d<\/a> Iran News Update, 12-29-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What this means, along with the recent targeted killing of IRGC General Mousavi in Syria, is that (1) Israel is attempting to remove IRGC leadership is a much more open and forceful way\u2014these are some of the persons enabling Hezbollah to right now sporadically attack Israel from Lebanon (they are most of Iran&#8217;s eastern Syria &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/12\/29\/5420\/\" 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-5420","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\/5420","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=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5442,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions\/5442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}