{"id":5771,"date":"2024-02-26T09:03:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5771"},"modified":"2024-02-28T11:47:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T17:47:22","slug":"5771","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/02\/26\/5771\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/iran-could-decide-build-nuclear-weapon-209616\">\u201cIran Could Decide to Build a Nuclear Weapon,\u201d<\/a> National Interest, 2-26-24.<\/p>\n<p>It is impossible this was done without Iran\u2019s knowledge.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-788888\">\u201cHouthis knock out underwater cables linking Europe to Asia \u2013 report,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 2-26-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-reduces-near-weapons-grade-stockpile-defying-expectations-ba384777?mod=world_lead_story\">\u201cIran Reduces Near Weapons-Grade Stockpile, Defying Expectations,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 2-26-24.\u00a0\u00a0But \u201cTehran still has enough weapons-grade material for several nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statetimes.in\/irans-surgical-strike-in-pakistan-kills-terrorist-commander\/\">\u201cIran\u2019s Surgical Strike In Pakistan, Kills Terrorist Commander,\u201d<\/a> State Times, 2-26-24.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like another 12th Imam disappearance.\u00a0 The martyr complex is strong.\u00a0 \u201cThe identity of Iran\u2019s next supreme leader must remain secret in order to protect him from assassination attempts by the United States and Israel, a senior Iranian cleric said in remarks published on Monday.\u00a0 Mohammad-Ali Mousavi-Jazayeri, a member of Iran\u2019s Assembly of Experts, said in an interview with the Iran-based Didban Iran website\u2026.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/middle-east\/2024\/02\/26\/Iran-should-hide-identity-of-next-supreme-leader-to-avoid-US-assassination-Cleric\">\u201cIran should hide identity of next supreme leader to avoid US assassination: Cleric,\u201d<\/a> Al Arabiya, 2-26-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agsiw.org\/iran-republic-of-god-in-an-increasingly-secular-society\/\">\u201cIran: Republic of God in an Increasingly Secular Society,\u201d<\/a> Arab Gulf States Institute, 2-26-24.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh doesn\u2019t have a green light from Tehran.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israeli-officials-hamas-is-signaling-rejection-of-latest-hostage-deal-proposals\/\">\u201cIsraeli officials: Hamas is signaling rejection of latest hostage deal proposals,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 2-26-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cChannels 12, 13 and Kan news all quoted senior officials as saying that Israel had been told that the framework worked out in Paris by Israel, American, Egyptian and Qatari mediators on Friday \u201cdoesn\u2019t correspond with Hamas demands.\u201d \u00a0Remember that \u201cQatar is considered one of the main state sponsors of Hamas, as it hosts some of its top leaders, including Haniyeh himself, and has donated billions of dollars over the years to Hamas in Gaza.\u201d\u00a0 In short, even Hamas-supporting Qatar thought this was a good deal, but Iran is stretching out the hostages in order to try to get Israel to stop fighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran Could Decide to Build a Nuclear Weapon,\u201d National Interest, 2-26-24. It is impossible this was done without Iran\u2019s knowledge.\u00a0 \u201cHouthis knock out underwater cables linking Europe to Asia \u2013 report,\u201d JPost, 2-26-24. \u201cIran Reduces Near Weapons-Grade Stockpile, Defying Expectations,\u201d WSJ, 2-26-24.\u00a0\u00a0But \u201cTehran still has enough weapons-grade material for several nuclear weapons.\u201d \u201cIran\u2019s Surgical Strike &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/02\/26\/5771\/\" 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-5771","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\/5771","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=5771"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5783,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions\/5783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}