{"id":7646,"date":"2025-06-23T04:15:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T09:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7646"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:06:22","slug":"7646","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/06\/23\/7646\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/06\/23\/world\/iran-trump-israel-news\">\u201cLive Updates: Fears Run High as Iran Weighs Response to U.S. Strikes,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 6-23-25.\u00a0 &#8220;President Trump doubled down on his claim that three Iranian nuclear sites had been \u201cobliterated\u201d by U.S. bombings. \u201cMonumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images,\u201d he said in a social media post. \u201cObliteration is an accurate term!\u201d Pentagon officials have characterized the damage to the sites \u2013 at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan \u2013 as \u201csevere.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/06\/23\/iran-retaliation-trump-israel-war\">\u201cTrump assembles national security team amid threat of Iran retaliation,\u201d<\/a> Axios, 6-23-25.\u00a0 The U.S. national security team per this article meets today at 1 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cn7ze4vmk2pt\">\u201c&#8217;Credible threat&#8217; of Iranian missile attack on US-run airbase in Qatar, BBC understands,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 6-23-25.\u00a0 Al Udeid is the large U.S. base outside Doha, and home to U.S. Centcom headquarters for all Middle East air operations.<\/p>\n<p>Just after 8 p.m in Doha, hardly dark.\u00a0 Iran is impatient.\u00a0 Or maybe wants to be on the news.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/iran-israel-us-latest-news?mod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_1\">\u201cIran Launches Missiles at a U.S. Base in Qatar, Officials Say,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 6-23-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/israel\/defense\/artc-israeli-air-force-strikes-military-infrastructure-in-western-iran-live-blog\">\u201cIran launches missiles at U.S. bases in Qatar and Iraq, source confirms to i24NEWS | LIVE BLOG,\u201d<\/a> i24, 6-23-25.\u00a0 And \u201cReports of missile projectiles targeting Bahrain and Kuwait, in addition to earlier reports from Qatar and Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLive Updates: Fears Run High as Iran Weighs Response to U.S. Strikes,\u201d NYT, 6-23-25.\u00a0 &#8220;President Trump doubled down on his claim that three Iranian nuclear sites had been \u201cobliterated\u201d by U.S. bombings. \u201cMonumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images,\u201d he said in a social media post. \u201cObliteration &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/06\/23\/7646\/\" 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-7646","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\/7646","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=7646"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7661,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions\/7661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}