{"id":7112,"date":"2025-02-14T07:49:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7112"},"modified":"2025-02-17T12:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:50:27","slug":"7112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/02\/14\/7112\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has to strike back somehow, so it uses Hezbollah.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/middle-east\/levant-turkey\/artc-unifil-official-wounded-by-hezbollah-supporters\">\u201cUNIFIL official wounded by Hezbollah supporters,\u201d<\/a> i24, 2-14-25.\u00a0 Hezbollah-linked agitators have been blocking the road to the airport and other roads in the capital to protest a decision by Lebanese authorities to revoke permission for a plane from Iran to fly to Beirut on Thursday. The decision to ban the Iranian plane came after the Israel issued a statement that Iran was smuggling cash to its proxy Hezbollah via civilian flights.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/iaea-chief-sees-time-running-out-revive-iran-nuclear-deal-2025-02-14\/\">\u201cIAEA chief says time running out to reach Iran nuclear deal,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 2-14-25.<\/p>\n<p>Notice how Al Jazeera takes sides when compared to how the other media are covering this story.\u00a0 Lebanon decides, not Israel.\u00a0 And Lebanon has decided (after years) to finally take a stand.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/2\/14\/iran-accuses-israel-of-disrupting-lebanon-flights-amid-rising-tensions\">\u201cIran accuses Israel of disrupting Lebanon flights amid rising tensions,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 2-14-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has to strike back somehow, so it uses Hezbollah.\u00a0 \u201cUNIFIL official wounded by Hezbollah supporters,\u201d i24, 2-14-25.\u00a0 Hezbollah-linked agitators have been blocking the road to the airport and other roads in the capital to protest a decision by Lebanese authorities to revoke permission for a plane from Iran to fly to Beirut on Thursday. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/02\/14\/7112\/\" 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-7112","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\/7112","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=7112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions\/7119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}