{"id":7787,"date":"2025-08-08T06:57:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7787"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:58:18","slug":"7787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/08\/7787\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic takes a chance here with painting an even bigger target on Mostafa Tajzadeh.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2025\/08\/iran-political-opposition-jailed\/683785\/\">\u201cThe Man Who Could Unite Iran\u2019s Opposition,\u201d<\/a> The Atlantic, 8-8-25.<\/p>\n<p>Message to Iran from inside China.\u00a0 Will either\/both country be truly affected?\u00a0 China can get oil from Saudi Arabia and other places.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/china.usembassy-china.org.cn\/sanctioning-facilitators-of-iran-sanctions-circumvention-and-political-oppression\/\">\u201cSanctioning Facilitators of Iran Sanctions Circumvention and Political Oppression,\u201d<\/a> Press Statement, U.S. Embassy &amp; Consulates in China, 8-8-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/08\/europe\/russia-drone-factory-iran-intl\">\u201cRussia built a massive drone factory to pump out Iranian-designed drones. Now it\u2019s leaving Tehran out in the cold,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 8-8-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/policy-analysis\/iran-has-taken-more-us-citizens-hostage-its-time-shred-regimes-playbook\">\u201cIran Has Taken More U.S. Citizens Hostage. It\u2019s Time to Shred the Regime\u2019s Playbook,\u201d<\/a> Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 8-8-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic takes a chance here with painting an even bigger target on Mostafa Tajzadeh.\u00a0 \u201cThe Man Who Could Unite Iran\u2019s Opposition,\u201d The Atlantic, 8-8-25. Message to Iran from inside China.\u00a0 Will either\/both country be truly affected?\u00a0 China can get oil from Saudi Arabia and other places.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cSanctioning Facilitators of Iran Sanctions Circumvention and Political &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/08\/7787\/\" 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7787","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\/7787","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=7787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7853,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions\/7853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}