{"id":6602,"date":"2024-10-14T22:39:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T03:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6602"},"modified":"2024-10-23T09:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T14:02:36","slug":"6602","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/10\/14\/6602\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat helpful, describing some of the strategy and influence on Iran.\u00a0 But Iran still has to decide on its own, despite outside influence, if it will act as a normal country.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/geopoliticalfutures.com\/russias-deliberately-unclear-strategy-for-iran\/\">\u201cRussia\u2019s Deliberately Unclear Strategy for Iran,\u201d<\/a> GPF, 10-14-24.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s technology killed 4 IDF soldiers.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/world\/story\/hezbollah-attack-mirsad-one-iron-dome-defence-system-rockets-drones-israel-iran-hamas-lebanon-war-2616531-2024-10-14\">\u201cHow Hezbollah&#8217;s drone pierced Israel&#8217;s Iron Dome,\u201d<\/a> India Today, 10-14-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201c[T]he Mirsad-1 was a modified version of Iran&#8217;s Mohajer-2 drone. \u2026 Hezbollah is said to have an arsenal of around 2,000 drones\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202410142621\">\u201cMystery fire in Tehran may be linked to nuclear capabilities,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 10-14-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2024-10-14\/ty-article\/.premium\/israeli-couple-charged-with-aiding-iran-including-plotting-to-assassinate-public-figure\/00000192-8a9f-d569-a3be-debfabb30000\">\u201cIsraeli Couple Charged With Aiding Iran, Including Plotting to Assassinate Public Figure,\u201d<\/a> Haaretz, 10-14-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/middle-east\/2024\/10\/14\/iran-s-top-diplomat-meets-senior-houthi-official-in-oman-ministry-\">\u201cIran\u2019s top diplomat meets senior Houthi official in Oman: Ministry,\u201d<\/a> Al Arabiya, 10-14-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202410138914\">\u201cSwedish PM urges EU to list Iran&#8217;s IRGC as terrorist organization,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 10-14-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/iran\/irans-nuclear-tipping-point\">\u201cIran\u2019s Nuclear Tipping Point,\u201d<\/a> Foreign Affairs, 10-14-24.\u00a0\u00a0But wait!\u00a0 The Islamic Republic of Iran, and its two ayatollahs, have always said its nuclear program was for peaceful purposes, and never for nuclear weapons.\u00a0 The current Supreme Leader has repeatedly said he has a fatwa (although he never shows the document) saying that if Iran pursued nuclear weapons that it is against the will of Allah.\u00a0 So, \u2026 if Iran is now pursuing a weapons program, shouldn\u2019t the worlds\u2019 countries and the United Nations say Iran is not telling the truth?<\/p>\n<p>These talks are just to distract, anyway.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-824595\">\u201cIran halts indirect talks with US as region tensions escalate,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 10-14-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat helpful, describing some of the strategy and influence on Iran.\u00a0 But Iran still has to decide on its own, despite outside influence, if it will act as a normal country.\u00a0 \u201cRussia\u2019s Deliberately Unclear Strategy for Iran,\u201d GPF, 10-14-24. Iran&#8217;s technology killed 4 IDF soldiers.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cHow Hezbollah&#8217;s drone pierced Israel&#8217;s Iron Dome,\u201d India Today, 10-14-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201c[T]he Mirsad-1 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/10\/14\/6602\/\" 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-6602","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\/6602","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=6602"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6616,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602\/revisions\/6616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}