{"id":6941,"date":"2025-01-04T21:43:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T03:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6941"},"modified":"2025-01-20T18:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T00:47:14","slug":"6941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/01\/04\/6941\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen can hold the Bab-el-Mandeb strait hostage, but it is no land bridge to Lebanon.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202501043905\">\u201cYemen takes Syria\u2019s place in Iran\u2019s security doctrine, says former commander,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 1-4-25.<\/p>\n<p>The Regime just won&#8217;t stop.\u00a0 Despite setbacks in Gaza and Bahrain and Lebanon and Syria, the Leader and the government won&#8217;t.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202501045297\">\u201cIran&#8217;s plot to assassinate dissident artist in Germany exposed,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 1-4-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202501044955\">\u201cIran providing Houthis with more arms after collapse of other armed allies \u2013 Telegraph,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 1-4-25.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the discussion, at least what official press reports, does not address economic steps.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/226483\/Iran-s-top-officials-meet-to-discuss-rial-depreciation\">\u201cIran\u2019s top officials meet to discuss rial depreciation,\u201d<\/a> Mehr, 1-4-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iranfocus.com\/iran\/52986-road-accident-fatalities-in-iran-at-highest-level-in-10-years\/\">\u201cRoad Accident Fatalities in Iran at Highest Level In 10 Years,\u201d<\/a> Iran Focus, 1-4-25.\u00a0\u00a0More than 20,000 in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen can hold the Bab-el-Mandeb strait hostage, but it is no land bridge to Lebanon.\u00a0 \u201cYemen takes Syria\u2019s place in Iran\u2019s security doctrine, says former commander,\u201d Iran International, 1-4-25. The Regime just won&#8217;t stop.\u00a0 Despite setbacks in Gaza and Bahrain and Lebanon and Syria, the Leader and the government won&#8217;t.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIran&#8217;s plot to assassinate dissident artist &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/01\/04\/6941\/\" 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-6941","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\/6941","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=6941"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7025,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions\/7025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}