{"id":7114,"date":"2025-02-15T11:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T17:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7114"},"modified":"2025-02-21T01:22:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T07:22:59","slug":"7114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/02\/15\/7114\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my goodness.\u00a0 They have now lost weeks, months, perhaps years of their life simply because they wanted to test Iran.\u00a0 So unwise.\u00a0 Quotes from the article about Craig and Lindsay Foreman:\u00a0 \u201cThe UK government advises against all but essential travel to these areas, and the news paints a pretty grim picture,\u201d they posted on Facebook on Dec. 30. \u201cWe want to find out for ourselves. That is why we are here.\u201d\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 The post included two images side-by-side: one of the Foreign Office\u2019s orange and yellow map of Iran, advising British citizens not to travel to Iran, and another of a photo of the green lawns of a mosque, an image whose location was pinned to Norduz, near Iran\u2019s border with Armenia.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/15\/world\/europe\/british-couple-detained-iran.html\">\u201cBritish Couple on World Motorcycle Tour Is Detained in Iran,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 2-15-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/students-iran-continue-protests-over-19-year-olds-murder-campus-second-day\">\u201cStudents in Iran continue protests over 19-year-old\u2019s murder on campus for second day,\u201d<\/a> Fox, 2-15-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cjw4egp7lwno\">\u201cIran&#8217;s abandoned bases in Syria: Years of military expansion lie in ruins,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 2-15-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-842197\">\u201cIran is rearming; is China covertly resupplying them? \u2013 report,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 2-15-25.<\/p>\n<p>What they say about Turkey.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/509812\/The-Turkish-media-s-role-in-shaping-perceptions-of-Iran-s-regional\">\u201cThe Turkish media&#8217;s role in shaping perceptions of Iran\u2019s regional strategy,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, 2-15-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my goodness.\u00a0 They have now lost weeks, months, perhaps years of their life simply because they wanted to test Iran.\u00a0 So unwise.\u00a0 Quotes from the article about Craig and Lindsay Foreman:\u00a0 \u201cThe UK government advises against all but essential travel to these areas, and the news paints a pretty grim picture,\u201d they posted on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/02\/15\/7114\/\" 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-7114","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\/7114","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=7114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7140,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions\/7140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}