{"id":7126,"date":"2025-02-19T11:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7126"},"modified":"2025-02-21T01:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T07:21:04","slug":"7126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/02\/19\/7126\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-842769\">\u201cIRGC commander: Iran poised for conflict, developed advanced missile arsenal,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 2-19-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-842822\">\u201cIran seeks to strengthen ties with Caspian, Gulf states through new corridor \u2013 analysis,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 2-19-25.<\/p>\n<p>No evidence.\u00a0 Consistent with past takings of hostages.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/02\/19\/middleeast\/iran-british-couple-spying-intl-latam\/index.html\">\u201cIran accuses detained British couple of spying,\u201d<\/a> AP, 2-19-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202502191087\">\u201cIran has fixed Israeli damage to air defenses, military commander says,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 2-19-25.\u00a0\u00a0\u201c&#8221;The air defense of Islamic Iran is at the height of readiness, and the minor damage inflicted on it has been completely repaired,&#8221; Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran&#8217;s armed forces was quoted by state media as saying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202502194405\">\u201c&#8217;We are not negotiating&#8217; says Iran, as war talk mounts,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 2-19-25.<\/p>\n<p>Al Monitor says, \u201cThe commander did not provide evidence for the alleged ties to Israel or the United States, nor did he reveal the number of people arrested.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2025\/02\/irans-irgc-dismantles-alleged-spy-network-linked-israel-us-what-know\">\u201cIran&#8217;s IRGC dismantles alleged spy network linked to Israel, US: What to know,\u201d<\/a> Al Monitor, 2-19-25.<\/p>\n<p>Quote of the Day:\u00a0 &#8220;There is no difference among US presidents,&#8221; said by Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202502196426\">\u201cTrump is no maverick, Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader tells Qatari Emir,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 2-19-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIRGC commander: Iran poised for conflict, developed advanced missile arsenal,\u201d JPost, 2-19-25. \u201cIran seeks to strengthen ties with Caspian, Gulf states through new corridor \u2013 analysis,\u201d JPost, 2-19-25. No evidence.\u00a0 Consistent with past takings of hostages.\u00a0 \u201cIran accuses detained British couple of spying,\u201d AP, 2-19-25. \u201cIran has fixed Israeli damage to air defenses, military commander &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/02\/19\/7126\/\" 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-7126","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\/7126","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=7126"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7139,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions\/7139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}