{"id":7146,"date":"2025-02-22T17:26:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T23:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:13:44","slug":"7146","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/02\/22\/7146\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe fact that Nasrallah\u2019s assassination was not followed by a public funeral was a great humiliation for Hezbollah and its supporters. After their crushing defeat, the group and the Iranian axis want to give a show of strength to show that they are back. Or at least that they are still here and not quite dead.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/middle-east\/20250222-at-nasrallah-s-funeral-hezbollah-and-iran-set-to-put-on-a-show-of-strength\">\u201cAt Nasrallah\u2019s funeral, Hezbollah and Iran set to put on a \u2018show of strength\u2019,\u201d<\/a> France 24, 2-22-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/irans-parliament-speaker-foreign-minister-to-attend-funeral-of-hezbollahs-nasrallah\/\">\u201cIran\u2019s parliament speaker, foreign minister to attend funeral of Hezbollah\u2019s Nasrallah,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 2-22-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iranfocus.com\/economy\/53500-iranian-regime-mp-warns-about-intensified-medicine-shortages\/\">\u201cIranian Regime MP Warns About Intensified Medicine Shortages,\u201d<\/a> Iran Focus, 2-22-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/buzz\/iran-is-begging-russia-for-su-35-fighters\">\u201cIran Is Begging Russia For Su-35 Fighters,\u201d<\/a> National Interest, 2-22-25.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll sell our drones to anyone!\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/228682\/Iran-comments-on-Shahed-drone-purchase-condition\">\u201cIran comments on Shahed drone purchase condition,\u201d<\/a> Mehr, 2-22-25.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it is already a dictatorship, and the Supreme Leader\u2019s procedural powers through the Guardian Council and influence already result basically in his hand-selecting the president.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202502212684\">\u201cProminent lawmaker proposes Khamenei directly appoint Iran&#8217;s presidents,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 2-22-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iranfocus.com\/economy\/53503-iran-some-nurses-are-homeless-and-sleep-in-their-cars\/\">\u201cIran: Some Nurses Are Homeless and Sleep in Their Cars,\u201d<\/a> Iran Focus, 2-22-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2025\/feb\/22\/hezbollah-facing-financial-squeeze-as-supply-lines\/\">\u201cHezbollah facing financial squeeze as supply lines from Iran are severed,\u201d<\/a> The Spokesman Review, 2-22-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe fact that Nasrallah\u2019s assassination was not followed by a public funeral was a great humiliation for Hezbollah and its supporters. After their crushing defeat, the group and the Iranian axis want to give a show of strength to show that they are back. Or at least that they are still here and not quite &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/02\/22\/7146\/\" 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-7146","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\/7146","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=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7181,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions\/7181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}