{"id":7843,"date":"2025-08-19T10:44:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7843"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:49:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:49:32","slug":"7843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/19\/7843\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observe the continuing revolutionary zeal of Iran, and its refusal to be a normal country, taking care of its people, and trading and being at peace with its neighbors.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-08-19\/iran-s-revolutionary-guard-defies-us-and-israel\">\u201cIran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Defies US and Israel,\u201d<\/a> Bloomberg, 8-19-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202508180609\">\u201cTehran infighting escalates over moderates&#8217; push for change of course,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 8-19-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iranwire.com\/en\/news\/144131-iran-military-warns-of-crushing-response-to-israeli-threats\/\">\u201cIran Military Warns of \u2018Crushing Response\u2019 to Israeli Threats,\u201d<\/a> Iran Wire, 8-19-25.<\/p>\n<p>Who is Caucasian?\u00a0 (a new question for this blog!).\u00a0 \u201cIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says in Yerevan that \u2018governance in the Caucasus region must remain Caucasian.\u2019\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/8\/19\/armenia-reassures-visiting-iran-leader-it-will-control-azerbaijan-corridor\">\u201cArmenia reassures visiting Iran leader it will control Azerbaijan corridor,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 8-19-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/analysis\/will-china-help-iran-build-new-air-force\">\u201cWill China help Iran build a new air force?,\u201d<\/a> The New Arab, 8-19-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observe the continuing revolutionary zeal of Iran, and its refusal to be a normal country, taking care of its people, and trading and being at peace with its neighbors.\u00a0 \u201cIran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Defies US and Israel,\u201d Bloomberg, 8-19-25. \u201cTehran infighting escalates over moderates&#8217; push for change of course,\u201d Iran International, 8-19-25. \u201cIran Military Warns of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/19\/7843\/\" 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-7843","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\/7843","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=7843"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7847,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions\/7847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}