{"id":5628,"date":"2024-01-30T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5628"},"modified":"2024-02-06T00:53:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T06:53:29","slug":"5628","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/01\/30\/5628\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great article about the balancing of Iran\u2014when should it attack, when should it not.\u00a0 The article is also a reminder of why Hezbollah hasn\u2019t fully attacked Israel yet after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.\u00a0 Nasrallah doesn\u2019t want Israel to invade Lebanon and openly war against Hezbollah, and Nasrallah doesn\u2019t want to die.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-axis-of-resistance-attacks-israel-u-s-base-7e795b44\">\u201cIran\u2019s \u2018Axis of Resistance\u2019 Faces Moment of Truth After Attacks on Israel, U.S. Base,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 1-30-24.<\/p>\n<p>If KH did the attack on Tower 22, this is an attempt to beg for a ceasefire.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/01\/30\/middleeast\/kataib-hezbollah-suspend-military-ops-us-intl\/index.html\">\u201cPowerful Iran-backed militia in Iraq to suspend military ops against US forces in region,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 1-30-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201c[T]he most powerful Iran-backed militia in Iraq, Kataib Hezbollah, announced on Tuesday the suspension of its military operations against US forces in the region two days after a drone attack killed three US service members and wounded dozens of others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.understandingwar.org\/backgrounder\/iran-update-january-30-2024\">\u201cIran Update,\u201d<\/a> Institute for the Study of War, 1-30-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iraqs-kataib-hezbollah-suspends-military-operations-us-forces-statement-2024-01-30\">\u201cIraq&#8217;s Kataib Hezbollah says it suspends attacks on US forces,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 1-30-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great article about the balancing of Iran\u2014when should it attack, when should it not.\u00a0 The article is also a reminder of why Hezbollah hasn\u2019t fully attacked Israel yet after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.\u00a0 Nasrallah doesn\u2019t want Israel to invade Lebanon and openly war against Hezbollah, and Nasrallah doesn\u2019t want to die.\u00a0 \u201cIran\u2019s \u2018Axis of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/01\/30\/5628\/\" 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-5628","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\/5628","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=5628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}