{"id":6838,"date":"2024-12-11T22:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T04:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6838"},"modified":"2024-12-13T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T03:22:17","slug":"6838","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/12\/11\/6838\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Par for the course.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/middle-east\/levant-turkey\/artc-iran-blames-fall-of-assad-on-israel-us-neighboring-country\">\u201cIran blames fall of Assad on Israel, US, &#8216;neighboring country&#8217;,\u201d<\/a> I24, 12-11-24.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the answers to the questions I asked earlier about Russia spiriting Assad away.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/middle-east\/levant-turkey\/artc-russia-pressured-assad-to-flee-helping-him-disappear-without-trace\">\u201cRussia pressured Assad to flee, helping him disappear without trace,\u201d<\/a> I24, 12-11-24.<\/p>\n<p>UK, France, Germany\u2014enough is enough.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europeans-tell-un-ready-snap-back-iran-sanctions-if-needed-2024-12-11\/\">\u201cEuropeans tell UN ready to &#8216;snap back&#8217; Iran sanctions if needed,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 12-11-24.<\/p>\n<p>The Economist doesn\u2019t get it, asking \u201cWill the weakened regime reform, or race for the bomb?\u201d\u00a0 Instead, since 1979, Iran only backs down when forced.\u00a0 Otherwise, they will continue to race for power, and for years that has been aiming to get a bomb.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/middle-east-and-africa\/2024\/12\/11\/the-fall-of-bashar-al-assad-is-a-blow-to-iran\">\u201cThe fall of Bashar al-Assad is a blow to Iran,\u201d<\/a> Economist, 12-11-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Par for the course.\u00a0 \u201cIran blames fall of Assad on Israel, US, &#8216;neighboring country&#8217;,\u201d I24, 12-11-24. Some of the answers to the questions I asked earlier about Russia spiriting Assad away.\u00a0 \u201cRussia pressured Assad to flee, helping him disappear without trace,\u201d I24, 12-11-24. UK, France, Germany\u2014enough is enough.\u00a0 \u201cEuropeans tell UN ready to &#8216;snap back&#8217; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/12\/11\/6838\/\" 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-6838","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\/6838","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=6838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6842,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions\/6842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}