{"id":6403,"date":"2024-08-23T09:29:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2024-08-24T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T14:30:09","slug":"6403","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/08\/23\/6403\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abbas Araghchi, the new FM, said, \u201cThe Islamic Republic of Iran welcomes the development of relations with the European Union in an environment based on mutual respect.\u201d\u00a0 Just remember, \u201cmutual respect\u201d doesn\u2019t mean mutual respect like an English speaking person knows the phrase.\u00a0 Iranian official have used this phrase for years, and it means \u201cWe can throw our weight around and be the regional power, just like the U.S. is a regional power.\u201d\u00a0 Of course, how Iran has become a regional power is not through mutual respect to its neighbors but through intimidation, military threats, proxies, terrorism, expansion of the Shia Crescent, proliferation, etc.\u00a0 See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/irans-new-fm-calls-for-engagement-with-eu-based-on-mutual-respect\/\">\u201cIran\u2019s new FM urges dialogue with EU, claims \u2018right\u2019 to retaliate for Haniyeh killing,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 8-23-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/08\/23\/iranian-hackers-biden-trump-00176257\">\u201cIranian hackers targeted WhatsApp accounts of staff in Biden, Trump administrations, Meta says,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 8-23-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbas Araghchi, the new FM, said, \u201cThe Islamic Republic of Iran welcomes the development of relations with the European Union in an environment based on mutual respect.\u201d\u00a0 Just remember, \u201cmutual respect\u201d doesn\u2019t mean mutual respect like an English speaking person knows the phrase.\u00a0 Iranian official have used this phrase for years, and it means \u201cWe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/08\/23\/6403\/\" 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-6403","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\/6403","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=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6404,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions\/6404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}