{"id":6860,"date":"2024-12-16T08:09:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T14:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6860"},"modified":"2024-12-18T09:08:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:08:49","slug":"6860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/12\/16\/6860\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWidespread closures continue across Iran because of a severe cold wave, an energy crisis and escalating air pollution. According to Iranian media reports, much of Tehran is expected to come to a complete halt Tuesday. Government offices, banks, schools, universities and judicial institutions will remain closed.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/voa-persian-iran-faces-energy-crisis-with-widespread-closures-fuel-shortages-\/7903878.html\">\u201cVOA Persian: Iran faces energy crisis with widespread closures, fuel shortages,\u201d<\/a> 12-16-24.<\/p>\n<p>This representative of the new Syria is no fan of Iran\u2019s actions and appears to want \u201cto reduce Tehran&#8217;s influence in the country.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202412156359\">\u201cWho is the new Syrian leader\u2019s Iran point man?,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 12-16-24.<\/p>\n<p>This is surprising, as Iran usually takes the hard line.\u00a0 \u201cThe decision to pause its implementation suggests the government fears it could trigger another wave of mass protests, like those seen two years ago.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0mv83m4z7vo\">\u201cIran pauses controversial new dress code law,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 12-16-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202412161405\">\u201cEnergy deficit forces Iran&#8217;s government to shut down offices,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 12-16-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWidespread closures continue across Iran because of a severe cold wave, an energy crisis and escalating air pollution. According to Iranian media reports, much of Tehran is expected to come to a complete halt Tuesday. Government offices, banks, schools, universities and judicial institutions will remain closed.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cVOA Persian: Iran faces energy crisis with widespread &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/12\/16\/6860\/\" 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-6860","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\/6860","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=6860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6869,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6860\/revisions\/6869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}