{"id":7402,"date":"2025-05-07T09:56:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7402"},"modified":"2025-05-17T20:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T01:03:20","slug":"7402","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/05\/07\/7402\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lest there be any doubt that Iran controls the Houthis (money, missiles, arms, advisors, etc.)(and despite the claims of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei)\u2014don\u2019t attack the U.S., keep attacking Israel was the direction.\u00a0 \u201cTwo Iranian officials, one from the foreign ministry and the other from the Revolutionary Guards, said that Iran had persuaded the Houthis to stop their attacks on US assets as part of the Omani [nuclear program] mediation efforts, The New York Times reported. Oman later revealed it had mediated the ceasefire deal, according to which neither side will target the other, including US vessels in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/reports-iran-pressed-houthis-into-truce-with-us-to-build-momentum-in-nuclear-talks\/\">\u201cReports: Iran pressed Houthis into truce with US to build \u2018momentum\u2019 in nuclear talks,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 5-7-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/reports-iran-pressed-houthis-into-truce-with-us-to-build-momentum-in-nuclear-talks\/\">\u201cReports: Iran pressed Houthis into truce with US to build \u2018momentum\u2019 in nuclear talks,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 5-7-25.<\/p>\n<p>Planned?\u00a0 Inevitable.\u00a0 And will continue.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/article-853076\">\u201cPower outage to hit Iran gov&#8217;t offices,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 5-7-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/iran-furious-trump-renaming-persian-gulf-arabian-gulf\">\u201cIran furious at Trump &#8216;renaming&#8217; Persian Gulf &#8216;Arabian Gulf&#8217;,\u201d<\/a> New Arab, 5-7-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/iran-has-assassination-list-with-donald-trump-its-most-valued-target-says-johnbolton13362992\">\u201cIran has &#8216;assassination list&#8217;, ex-US security adviser says &#8211; and reveals its most valued target,\u201d<\/a> Sky, 5-7-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest there be any doubt that Iran controls the Houthis (money, missiles, arms, advisors, etc.)(and despite the claims of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei)\u2014don\u2019t attack the U.S., keep attacking Israel was the direction.\u00a0 \u201cTwo Iranian officials, one from the foreign ministry and the other from the Revolutionary Guards, said that Iran had persuaded the Houthis to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/05\/07\/7402\/\" 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-7402","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\/7402","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=7402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7419,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions\/7419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}