{"id":7355,"date":"2025-04-16T12:35:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7355"},"modified":"2025-05-17T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T03:49:00","slug":"7355","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/04\/16\/7355\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump decided for trying for diplomacy first.\u00a0 He must remember, though, that Iran is expert at stalling.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/16\/us\/politics\/trump-israel-iran-nuclear.html\">\u201cTrump Waved Off Israeli Strike After Divisions Emerged in His Administration,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 4-16-25.<\/p>\n<p>So fallacious.\u00a0 His articles shouldn\u2019t be printed by the Western media.\u00a0 Here he equates the U.S. and Iranian positions, somehow making the countries equal.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thebulletin.org\/2025\/04\/behind-the-us-iran-talks-five-points-of-convergence-between-trump-and-khamenei\/#post-heading\">\u201cBehind the US-Iran talks: five points of convergence between Trump and Khamenei,\u201d<\/a> Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 4-16-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/former-faa-contractor-pleads-guilty-spying-iran-sharing-private-info-us-airportsenergy-industry\">\u201cFormer FAA contractor pleads guilty to spying for Iran, sharing private info on US airports, energy industry,\u201d<\/a> Fox,\u00a04-16-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump decided for trying for diplomacy first.\u00a0 He must remember, though, that Iran is expert at stalling.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cTrump Waved Off Israeli Strike After Divisions Emerged in His Administration,\u201d NYT, 4-16-25. So fallacious.\u00a0 His articles shouldn\u2019t be printed by the Western media.\u00a0 Here he equates the U.S. and Iranian positions, somehow making the countries equal.\u00a0 \u201cBehind the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/04\/16\/7355\/\" 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-7355","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\/7355","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=7355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7425,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355\/revisions\/7425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}