{"id":7701,"date":"2025-07-05T19:06:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7701"},"modified":"2025-07-06T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:07:09","slug":"7701","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/07\/05\/7701\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easily the biggest news of the day.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c3d1n8z8nzro\">\u201cIran supreme leader in first public appearance since Israel war,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 7-5-25.\u00a0\u00a0I believe he has not ventured beyond the country\u2019s borders since becoming Supreme Leader, and in recent years has very rarely left Tehran and his compound, even for Friday Prayers.\u00a0 There is a large room with PR equipment that he uses for \u201cpublic\u201d events and speeches.\u00a0 Why not leave the country, or then Tehran?\u00a0 Not because of Israel or the U.S. or Saudi Arabia or anyone else.\u00a0 He was in fear from his people.\u00a0 Or rather, I should say the people of Iran.\u00a0 So for him to reappear (and not speak, he is not well) \u201cAfter weeks of sheltering in a bunker, Mr. Khamenei on Saturday night attended an annual Shiite religious ceremony for Ashura, which was held at his compound.\u201d\u00a0 Appearing at Ashura is the message he was sending (look up Ashura if you don\u2019t know what that is).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easily the biggest news of the day.\u00a0 \u201cIran supreme leader in first public appearance since Israel war,\u201d BBC, 7-5-25.\u00a0\u00a0I believe he has not ventured beyond the country\u2019s borders since becoming Supreme Leader, and in recent years has very rarely left Tehran and his compound, even for Friday Prayers.\u00a0 There is a large room with PR &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/07\/05\/7701\/\" 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-7701","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\/7701","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=7701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7702,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701\/revisions\/7702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}