{"id":7206,"date":"2025-03-04T07:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T13:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7206"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T22:56:02","slug":"7206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/03\/04\/7206\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is rarity because of the purpose of this blog, but this article is not directly about Iran.\u00a0 It is about the freeing of Lebanon.\u00a0 And begs the question of what Iran will do next regarding Hezbollah.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/03\/04\/lebanon-state-department-unfreezes-aid\">\u201cState Department unfreezes $95 million in aid for the Lebanese army,\u201d<\/a> Axios, 3-4-25.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe Aoun presidency is a historic opportunity to change the reality in Lebanon for the better,&#8221; a U.S. official told Axios. The new Lebanese government platform stated for the first time in years that only the Lebanese state and its armed forces are responsible for defending the country. It is a marked change from the previous governments, which said the state and &#8220;the resistance&#8221; \u2014 synonymous with Hezbollah \u2014 are responsible for defensing the country. State of play: As part of the ceasefire agreement with Israel, the Lebanese armed forces have been deployed to southern Lebanon, especially to areas where Hezbollah militants were positioned before the war.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Likewise, look at this.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/3\/4\/saudi-arabia-to-consider-resuming-lebanon-imports-lifting-travel-ban\">\u201cSaudi Arabia to consider resuming Lebanon imports, lifting travel ban,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 3-4-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/russian-missile-experts-flew-to-iran-in-proximity-to-direct-attacks-on-israel\/\">\u201cRussian missile experts flew to Iran around the time of Tehran\u2019s attacks on Israel,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, Times of Israel, 3-4-25.\u00a0 Expands the definition of enabler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is rarity because of the purpose of this blog, but this article is not directly about Iran.\u00a0 It is about the freeing of Lebanon.\u00a0 And begs the question of what Iran will do next regarding Hezbollah.\u00a0 \u201cState Department unfreezes $95 million in aid for the Lebanese army,\u201d Axios, 3-4-25.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe Aoun presidency is a historic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/03\/04\/7206\/\" 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-7206","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\/7206","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=7206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7220,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206\/revisions\/7220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}