{"id":7795,"date":"2025-08-09T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7795"},"modified":"2025-08-23T18:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:22:09","slug":"7795","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/09\/7795\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/syzqhwnole\">\u201cIran sours on Russia after Moscow produces drones in massive new complex, report,\u201d<\/a> Ynet, 8-9-25.\u00a0 Criss-cross double-cross seems to be the theme of the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202508093340\">\u201cIran vows to block Trump-brokered Caucasus corridor \u2018with or without Russia\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 8-9-25.\u00a0\u00a0See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/09\/iran-and-russia-stand-to-lose-from-us-deal-with-azerbaijan-and-armenia\">\u201cIran and Russia stand to lose from US deal with Azerbaijan and Armenia,\u201d<\/a> Guardian, 8-9-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/09\/world-news\/rift-emerges-between-allies-russia-and-iran-over-1-75b-weapons-deal\/\">\u201cRift emerges between allies Russia and Iran over $1.75B weapons deal, Putin\u2019s lack of support for Tehran,\u201d<\/a> NYPost, 8-9-25.\u00a0\u00a0Intelligence officials think probably in Aug. 2025 that 90% of Shahed production is performed now inside Russia instead of Iran producing them at 200K, and that Russia can make them for 70K.\u00a0 I would imagine that Ukraine will target the Russia drone factory in Alabuga shortly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ewelinaochab\/2025\/08\/09\/iranian-journalists-under-threat-globally\/\">\u201cIran International\u2019s Journalists Subjected To Transnational Repression Globally,\u201d<\/a> Forbes, 8-9-25.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cOver the past six weeks, Iranian authorities have intimidated and threatened 45 journalists and 315 of their family members. Iranian authorities are said to have threatened to kill these journalists and their relatives unless they stop working for Iran International by specific deadlines, which have all now passed.\u201d\u00a0 I believe these threats come from the top of the Regime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202508095255\">\u201cOct. 7 was culmination of Tehran\u2019s strategic plan, Khamenei website says,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 8-9-25.\u00a0 Uh oh, more evidence of Iran&#8217;s influence in what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran sours on Russia after Moscow produces drones in massive new complex, report,\u201d Ynet, 8-9-25.\u00a0 Criss-cross double-cross seems to be the theme of the day. \u201cIran vows to block Trump-brokered Caucasus corridor \u2018with or without Russia\u2019,\u201d Iran International, 8-9-25.\u00a0\u00a0See also \u201cIran and Russia stand to lose from US deal with Azerbaijan and Armenia,\u201d Guardian, 8-9-25. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/09\/7795\/\" 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-7795","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\/7795","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=7795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7859,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions\/7859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}