{"id":7378,"date":"2025-04-28T15:35:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T20:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7378"},"modified":"2025-04-29T15:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:41:46","slug":"7378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/04\/28\/7378\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-851860\">\u201cKatz threatens to attack Iran as Trump tries to cut a contested nuclear deal,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 4-28-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/4\/28\/iran-accuses-israel-of-seeking-to-disrupt-nuclear-talks-with-us\">\u201cIran accuses Israel of seeking to disrupt nuclear talks with US,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 4-28-25.<\/p>\n<p>We may never know publicly what caused this at Bandar Abbas.\u00a0 So many accidents, so much mismanagement, so much corruption.\u00a0 Corners cut due to time pressure, restricted budgets due to support of terrorism and not building out the port in a sufficient way, and of course opaqueness to not let its opponents know what is happening.\u00a0 But let\u2019s not forget that missile fuel was involved, something that no one says Iran needs to defend itself.\u00a0 These are offensive weapons.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/4\/28\/fires-continue-to-rage-at-key-iran-port-as-death-toll-rises-to-46\">\u201cFires extinguished at key Iran port as explosion death toll rises to 70,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 4-28-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKatz threatens to attack Iran as Trump tries to cut a contested nuclear deal,\u201d JPost, 4-28-25. \u201cIran accuses Israel of seeking to disrupt nuclear talks with US,\u201d Al Jazeera, 4-28-25. We may never know publicly what caused this at Bandar Abbas.\u00a0 So many accidents, so much mismanagement, so much corruption.\u00a0 Corners cut due to time &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/04\/28\/7378\/\" 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-7378","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\/7378","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=7378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7381,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions\/7381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}