{"id":6891,"date":"2024-12-25T22:52:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T04:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6891"},"modified":"2024-12-29T09:26:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T15:26:21","slug":"6891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/12\/25\/6891\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelhayom.com\/2024\/12\/25\/after-assads-fall-iraq-may-break-free-from-irans-grip\/\">\u201cAfter Assad&#8217;s fall, Iraq may break free from Iran&#8217;s grip,\u201d<\/a> Israel Hayom, 12-25-24.\u00a0\u00a0Like Lebanon\u2019s citizens, the people of Iraq are faced with the decision to go with Iran or go with freedom.\u00a0 The same for Iraqi PM Sudani.\u00a0 BTW, this article reports an appearance by Iraq\u2019s Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the highest Shiite authority in country, who refused \u201cto issue a religious ruling calling for the disarmament of the militias. The elderly Ayatollah refused the American request, and according to a report in Iran, he also recently declined to meet with a representative of the UN Secretary-General who sought to discuss the same issue.\u201d\u00a0 Sounds like Sistani, faced with the opportunity to break free from Iran, is choosing poorly.\u00a0 I hope there\u2019s not corruption involved.<\/p>\n<p>This tells you what you need to know about the temperature in Tehran.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202412256915\">\u201cAfter backlash, Iran backs down from renaming Tehran street after Sinwar,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 12-25-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter Assad&#8217;s fall, Iraq may break free from Iran&#8217;s grip,\u201d Israel Hayom, 12-25-24.\u00a0\u00a0Like Lebanon\u2019s citizens, the people of Iraq are faced with the decision to go with Iran or go with freedom.\u00a0 The same for Iraqi PM Sudani.\u00a0 BTW, this article reports an appearance by Iraq\u2019s Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the highest Shiite authority in country, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/12\/25\/6891\/\" 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-6891","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\/6891","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=6891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6924,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions\/6924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}