{"id":7836,"date":"2025-08-18T22:14:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7836"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:49:47","slug":"7836","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/18\/7836\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-864512\">\u201cIran can strike US cities from the sea, claims all of Europe already within range, Iranian MP says,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 8-18-25.<\/p>\n<p>Again, for anyone out there who thinks Iran learned its lesson during the 12 Day War, think again.\u00a0 They continue to threaten, support proxies, develop nuclear weapons, work to control Lebanon, threaten Syria\u2019s new government, support the killing of Ukrainians with drones for Russia, try to kill journalists, take civilians and hostages, and as this article points out continue to threaten war against Jews and Israel.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-864516\">\u201cKhamenei&#8217;s advisor: &#8216;New war between Israel and Iran may occur at any time&#8217; \u2013 report,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 8-18-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/18\/nx-s1-5506266\/a-devastating-drought-in-iran\">\u201cA Devastating Drought in Iran,\u201d<\/a> NPR, 8-18-25.\u00a0\u00a0Iran\u2019s country-wide drought and the mismanaged planning and response has resulted in capital Tehran about to run out of water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran can strike US cities from the sea, claims all of Europe already within range, Iranian MP says,\u201d JPost, 8-18-25. Again, for anyone out there who thinks Iran learned its lesson during the 12 Day War, think again.\u00a0 They continue to threaten, support proxies, develop nuclear weapons, work to control Lebanon, threaten Syria\u2019s new government, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/18\/7836\/\" 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-7836","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\/7836","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=7836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7842,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions\/7842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}