{"id":7799,"date":"2025-08-13T14:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2025-08-23T18:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:29:34","slug":"7799","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/13\/7799\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is crucial.\u00a0 Who controls Lebanon?\u00a0 Does Hezbollah?\u00a0 Does Iran?\u00a0 The State of Lebanon should be the entity who controls Lebanon.\u00a0 Until Hezbollah and its controller Iran are defeated within Lebanon, the proxy and dangerous condition will remain.\u00a0 This is a crucial point for Pres. Aoun and Lebanon, they will have to be strong.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/8\/13\/lebanons-aoun-tells-iran-security-chief-it-rejects-external-interference\">\u201cLebanon rejects foreign interference, president tells Iran official,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 8-13-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/iran-issues-new-threat-us-2112673\">\u201cIran Issues New Threat to US,\u201d<\/a> Newsweek, 8-13-25.<\/p>\n<p>Mahar Air caught again carrying money from Iran to Hezbollah.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/lebanon-tells-iranian-flight-it-cant-land-after-idfs-hezbollah-smuggling-claim\/\">\u201cLebanon tells Iranian flight it can\u2019t land, after IDF\u2019s Hezbollah smuggling claim,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 8-13-25.<\/p>\n<p>Pres. Pezeshkian didn\u2019t say that Hamas is taking the food, nor did he say that Israel is at war.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-water-crisis-israel-netanyahu-a1ab05f1c627125c6e5742fbcd859479\">\u201cIran\u2019s president mocks Netanyahu over pledge of help in water crisis,\u201d<\/a> AP, 8-13-25.<\/p>\n<p>Iran won\u2019t negotiate, so they may get penalized.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce352drkvdro\">\u201cUK, France and Germany ready to reimpose sanctions on Iran over nuclear programme,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 8-13-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2025\/08\/13\/iran-fears-existential-threat-over-britains-nuclear-sanctio\/\">\u201cIran fears \u2018existential threat\u2019 over Britain\u2019s nuclear sanctions,\u201d<\/a> Telegraph, 8-13-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is crucial.\u00a0 Who controls Lebanon?\u00a0 Does Hezbollah?\u00a0 Does Iran?\u00a0 The State of Lebanon should be the entity who controls Lebanon.\u00a0 Until Hezbollah and its controller Iran are defeated within Lebanon, the proxy and dangerous condition will remain.\u00a0 This is a crucial point for Pres. Aoun and Lebanon, they will have to be strong.\u00a0 \u201cLebanon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/13\/7799\/\" 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-7799","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\/7799","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=7799"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7862,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions\/7862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}