{"id":7210,"date":"2025-03-07T17:47:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T23:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7210"},"modified":"2025-03-08T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T23:48:08","slug":"7210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/03\/07\/7210\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big news.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/07\/us\/politics\/trump-iran-nuclear-talks.html\">\u201cTrump Offers to Reopen Nuclear Talks in a Letter to Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 3-7-25.\u00a0\u00a0Iran will \u201chave to choose between curbing its fast-expanding program or losing it in a military attack.\u201d\u00a0 \u2026 \u201cNow, the strategic environment has changed radically. The Justice Department has accused Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps of seeking to assassinate Mr. Trump last year; it issued indictments before Mr. Biden left office. Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities are now exposed to attack, after Israel destroyed almost all of the air defenses protecting them in October. And Iran\u2019s regional proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, are in no condition to threaten Israel with retaliation should the Iranian facilities come under attack. \u2026 Curiously, Mr. Pezeshkian has publicly distanced himself from Ayatollah Khamenei\u2019s position. On Sunday, he told Parliament that he favored negotiations but had to abide by Ayatollah Khamenei\u2019s decision. It was an unusually frank acknowledgment of the limits of the president\u2019s power in Iran\u2019s political system and an attempt to put the fallout of such a decision \u2014 more sanctions, worsening economy, military strikes on nuclear sites \u2014 on the ayatollah. \u201cMy position has been and will remain that I believe in negotiations, but now we have to follow the parameters set by the supreme leader,\u201d Mr. Pezeshkian said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/iran-fm-says-no-to-nuclear-talks-with-us-under-trumps-maximum-pressure-policy\/\">\u201cIran FM says no to nuclear talks with US under Trump\u2019s \u2018maximum pressure\u2019 policy,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 3-7-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news.\u00a0 \u201cTrump Offers to Reopen Nuclear Talks in a Letter to Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader,\u201d NYT, 3-7-25.\u00a0\u00a0Iran will \u201chave to choose between curbing its fast-expanding program or losing it in a military attack.\u201d\u00a0 \u2026 \u201cNow, the strategic environment has changed radically. The Justice Department has accused Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps of seeking to assassinate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/03\/07\/7210\/\" 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7210","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\/7210","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=7210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7211,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions\/7211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}