{"id":7848,"date":"2025-08-20T10:42:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7848"},"modified":"2025-08-23T18:33:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:33:56","slug":"7848","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/20\/7848\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/iran-says-it-has-developed-new-better-missiles-will-use-them-if-israel-attacks-again\/\">\u201cIran says it has developed new, better missiles; will use them if Israel attacks again,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, AFP, 8-20-25.<\/p>\n<p>Best article I\u2019ve seen so far guessing about the underground damage at Fordo.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/08\/20\/world\/middleeast\/fordo-us-iran-nuclear-program-strike.html\">\u201cThe Invisible Target in Iran,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 8-20-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/belarus-iran-both-friends-putin-plan-strengthen-military-broader-ties-2025-08-20\/\">\u201cBelarus and Iran, both friends of Putin, plan to strengthen military and broader ties,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 8-20-25.\u00a0 Iran continues to choose beligerents and shady states to deal with, not peace-loving countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran says it has developed new, better missiles; will use them if Israel attacks again,\u201d Times of Israel, AFP, 8-20-25. Best article I\u2019ve seen so far guessing about the underground damage at Fordo.\u00a0 \u201cThe Invisible Target in Iran,\u201d NYT, 8-20-25. \u201cBelarus and Iran, both friends of Putin, plan to strengthen military and broader ties,\u201d Reuters, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/20\/7848\/\" 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-7848","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\/7848","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=7848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7867,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848\/revisions\/7867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}