{"id":6962,"date":"2025-01-19T08:23:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6962"},"modified":"2025-01-20T15:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:51:24","slug":"6962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/01\/19\/6962\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ifpnews.com\/iran-leader-condolences-martyrdom-two-senior-judges-tehran\">\u201cIran\u2019s Leader expresses condolences over martyrdom of two senior judges in Tehran,\u201d<\/a> Iran Front Page, 1-19-25.<\/p>\n<p>Quote of the Day.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see how Iran responds.\u00a0 Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is urging President-elect Donald Trump to go after Iran with force. The target: Tehran\u2019s nuclear program. The country is now a \u201cde facto nuclear threshold state,\u201d and Graham doesn\u2019t believe diplomacy will stop Iran from eventually crossing the threshold. \u2026 \u201cThere\u2019s a one in trillion chance you\u2019ll degrade the Iranian nuclear program through diplomacy,\u201d Graham told Margaret Brennan on Sunday on CBS\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s a 90% chance you\u2019ll degrade it through military action by Israel, supported by the United States. So the next topic I will be engaging in with President Trump is to take this moment in time to decimate the Iran nuclear program because they\u2019re so exposed.\u201d \u2026 \u201cThis is a religious Nazi regime,\u201d Graham told Brennan. \u201cThey want to destroy the Jewish state. They want to purify Islam and drive us out of the Mideast. It would be like negotiating with Hitler. I am hoping there will be an effort by Israel to decimate the Iran nuclear program supported by the United States, and, if we don\u2019t do that, it will be a historical mistake.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/19\/graham-military-action-iran-nuclear-program-00199181\">\u201cLindsey Graham wants military action against Iran\u2019s nuclear program,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 1-19-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/iran-court-sentences-pop-singer-tataloo-to-death-for\\insulting-prophet-muhammad\/\">\u201cIran court sentences pop singer Tataloo to death for insulting Prophet Muhammad,\u201d<\/a> AFP, 1-19-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran\u2019s Leader expresses condolences over martyrdom of two senior judges in Tehran,\u201d Iran Front Page, 1-19-25. Quote of the Day.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see how Iran responds.\u00a0 Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is urging President-elect Donald Trump to go after Iran with force. The target: Tehran\u2019s nuclear program. The country is now a \u201cde facto nuclear threshold state,\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/01\/19\/6962\/\" 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6962","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\/6962","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=6962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6996,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962\/revisions\/6996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}