{"id":7745,"date":"2025-07-28T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7745"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:40:53","slug":"7745","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/07\/28\/7745\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll wait to hear what open sources say about this test, \u201cthe first field activation of the system in Iran.\u201d\u00a0 At this point it looks like that, just a test.\u00a0 Certainly the Ayatollah wishes he had fully-functional S-400s back in June.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/united24media.com\/latest-news\/iran-flexes-missile-shield-near-nuclear-hub-in-first-ever-russian-s-400-test-\">\u201cIran Flexes Missile Shield Near Nuclear Hub in First-Ever Russian S-400 Test,\u201d<\/a> United24, 7-28-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/iran-arrests-american-israel-crackdown-us-dual-nationals-2105014\">\u201cTwo Americans Detained in Iran on Suspicion of Spying for Israel,\u201d<\/a> Newsweek, 7-28-25.\u00a0\u00a0The U.S. State Department spokesperson said (good advice), &#8220;Americans, including Iranian-Americans and other dual nationals, have been wrongfully detained, taken hostage by the Iranian government for months, and years. The threat of detention is even greater today. Do not travel to Iran under any circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2025\/07\/iran-horrifying-secret-executions-amid-mounting-political-repression\/\">\u201cIran: Horrifying secret executions amid mounting political repression,\u201d<\/a> Amnesty International, 7-28-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll wait to hear what open sources say about this test, \u201cthe first field activation of the system in Iran.\u201d\u00a0 At this point it looks like that, just a test.\u00a0 Certainly the Ayatollah wishes he had fully-functional S-400s back in June.\u00a0 \u201cIran Flexes Missile Shield Near Nuclear Hub in First-Ever Russian S-400 Test,\u201d United24, 7-28-25. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/07\/28\/7745\/\" 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-7745","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\/7745","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=7745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7781,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions\/7781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}