{"id":7769,"date":"2025-07-31T13:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2025-08-14T11:24:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:24:56","slug":"7769","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/07\/31\/7769\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not some pro-Western outlet.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/7\/31\/uk-us-and-allies-accuse-iran-of-cross-border-assassination-plots\">\u201cUK, US and allies accuse Iran of cross-border assassination plots,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 7-31-25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTehran did not get the message and is back to business as usual. Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Fox News\u2019 Bret Baier that Iran would continue to maintain its support for Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. And before meeting European leaders last week, he said it was important for them \u201cto understand that the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s position remains unshakable, and that our uranium enrichment will continue.\u201d Tehran has resumed its taunts against Israel and, with help from China, is rebuilding the Russia-supplied air defense network destroyed by the Israeli air force \u2014 all under the protection of the Trump brokered ceasefire following Operation Midnight Hammer.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/national-security\/5427861-russia-and-iran-are-on-a-collision-course-with-trump\/\">\u201cRussia and Iran are on a collision course with Trump,\u201d<\/a> The Hill, 7-31-25.<\/p>\n<p>A big money maker for Iran is finally addressed.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/7\/31\/us-says-sanctions-hit-iran-shipping-empire-linked-to-top-tehran-official\">\u201cUS says sanctions hit Iran \u2018shipping empire\u2019 linked to top Tehran official,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 7-31-25.\u00a0\u00a0And quote of the day:\u00a0 \u201cThe Shamkhani family\u2019s shipping empire highlights how the Iranian regime elites leverage their positions to accrue massive wealth and fund the regime\u2019s dangerous behaviour,\u201d Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.\u00a0 \u201cThe new sanctions target 15 shipping firms, 52 vessels, 12 individuals and 53 entities involved in sanctions evasion in 17 countries, ranging from Panama to Italy to Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not some pro-Western outlet.\u00a0 \u201cUK, US and allies accuse Iran of cross-border assassination plots,\u201d Al Jazeera, 7-31-25. \u201cTehran did not get the message and is back to business as usual. Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Fox News\u2019 Bret Baier that Iran would continue to maintain its support for Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. And &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/07\/31\/7769\/\" 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-7769","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\/7769","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=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7805,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions\/7805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}