{"id":5652,"date":"2024-02-02T23:26:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T05:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:11:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T22:11:59","slug":"5652","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/02\/02\/5652\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this story, and headline (which is the theme of this blog), The Atlantic is correct.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2024\/02\/iran-is-not-a-normal-country\/677319\">\u201cIran Is Not a \u2018Normal\u2019 Country,\u201d<\/a> The Atlantic, 2-2-24.\u00a0 \u201cIran\u2019s break with the West should not be surprising: It is the culmination of a trajectory that began even before the Islamic Revolution. The antipathy of Iranian Islamists toward the United States, Israel, and the core principles of Western liberalism was clear in 1979, when radicals seized the U.S. embassy and held its personnel hostage for 444 days. It was clear when the Islamic Republic established Lebanese Hezbollah to destroy Israel soon after. And it was in full evidence in 1989, when Iran\u2019s then\u2013supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a global call for the assassination of the writer Salman Rushdie, on the grounds that his novel offended Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tricky.\u00a0 How the Regime manipulated the International Crisis Group and the Iran Experts Initiative for its own purposes, and to mask its progress on the nuclear program.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/02\/02\/2024\/how-iran-used-its-ties-to-a-top-global-ngo\">\u201cHow Iran used its ties to a top global NGO,\u201d<\/a> Semafor, 2-2-24.<\/p>\n<p>Harakat al-Nujaba, not Kataib Hezbollah.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/iran-backed-proxy-group-threatens-more-attacks-us-troops\">\u201cIran-backed proxy group threatens more attacks on US troops,\u201d<\/a> Fox, 2-2-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2024\/02\/02\/report-to-congress-on-iran-and-u-s-policy-3\">\u201cReport to Congress on Iran and U.S. Policy,\u201d<\/a> USNI News, 2-2-24.\u00a0\u00a0This is the 1-26-24 CRS report, \u201cIran: Background and U.S. Policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-784870\">\u201cIran claims it discovered &#8216;dozens&#8217; of Israeli spies around the world,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 2-2-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this story, and headline (which is the theme of this blog), The Atlantic is correct.\u00a0 \u201cIran Is Not a \u2018Normal\u2019 Country,\u201d The Atlantic, 2-2-24.\u00a0 \u201cIran\u2019s break with the West should not be surprising: It is the culmination of a trajectory that began even before the Islamic Revolution. The antipathy of Iranian Islamists toward the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/02\/02\/5652\/\" 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5652","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\/5652","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=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5653,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions\/5653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}