{"id":7809,"date":"2025-08-15T13:46:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7809"},"modified":"2025-08-23T18:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:32:46","slug":"7809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/15\/7809\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well said.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202508152498\">\u201cIran\u2019s insistence on uranium enrichment risks another war, ex-official warns,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 8-15-25.\u00a0 But he has it wrong on the &#8220;right&#8221; to enrichment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/s1lk1fhdlx\">\u201cIran looks to China to rebuild its missile capabilities, Israelis concerned,\u201d<\/a> Ynet, 8-15-25.\u00a0 See also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/israel-report-iran-china-missile-boost-2114156\">\u201cIran Turns to China for Missile Boost: Report,\u201d<\/a> Newsweek, 8-15-25.<\/p>\n<p>A point this blog has emphasized.\u00a0 What Iran claims (under \u201cinternational law\u201d it says) is not accurate under international law treaty, custom, etc.\u00a0 Notice the source, well-respected.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thebulletin.org\/2025\/08\/actually-the-npt-doesnt-guarantee-a-right-to-make-nuclear-fuel\/\">\u201cActually, the NPT doesn\u2019t guarantee a right to make nuclear fuel,\u201d<\/a> Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 8-15-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.criticalthreats.org\/analysis\/iran-update-august-15-2025\">\u201cIran Update, August 15, 2025,\u201d<\/a> Critical Threats, 8-15-25.<\/p>\n<p>It is make or break time.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/hezbollah-warns-lebanon-will-have-no-life-if-state-moves-against-it-2025-08-15\/\">\u201cHezbollah warns Lebanon &#8216;will have no life&#8217; if state moves against it,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 8-15-25.\u00a0 Lebanon&#8217;s government may have to eliminate Hezbollah&#8217;s new leadership in order to attack the cancer, as Israel did some monts ago when he acted against Nasrallah and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well said.\u00a0 \u201cIran\u2019s insistence on uranium enrichment risks another war, ex-official warns,\u201d Iran International, 8-15-25.\u00a0 But he has it wrong on the &#8220;right&#8221; to enrichment. \u201cIran looks to China to rebuild its missile capabilities, Israelis concerned,\u201d Ynet, 8-15-25.\u00a0 See also\u00a0\u201cIran Turns to China for Missile Boost: Report,\u201d Newsweek, 8-15-25. A point this blog has emphasized.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/15\/7809\/\" 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-7809","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\/7809","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=7809"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7865,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7809\/revisions\/7865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}