{"id":7903,"date":"2025-08-28T13:15:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7903"},"modified":"2025-09-02T07:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:11:12","slug":"7903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/28\/7903\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it has started.\u00a0 Iran hasn&#8217;t learned from the 12 Day War, and hasn&#8217;t understood that its intransigence to turn from nuclear weapons and to stop threatening others and to hope that Russia would save it, don&#8217;t work.\u00a0 In short, the theme of this blog continues.\u00a0 Until the Islamic Republic of Iran will stop striving to be a Revoluationary State and to aim to be a Normal State, the reaction of other countries will continue.\u00a0 See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/european-nations-start-process-to-impose-a-snapback-of-iran-nuclear-sanctions-at-un\">\u201cEuropean nations start process to impose a \u2018snapback\u2019 of Iran nuclear sanctions at UN,\u201d<\/a> PBS, 8-28-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/iranian-cleanup-of-nuclear-site-likely-to-erase-proof-of-atomic-work-report\/\">\u201cIranian cleanup of nuclear site likely to erase proof of atomic work \u2014 report,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 8-28-25.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s back!\u00a0 An appearance by former UN Ambassador and FM Mohammad Javad Zarif.\u00a0 We\u2019ve missed him.\u00a0 I believe he is a cousin to Seyed Mousavian, the former Princeton professor who retired in embarrassment.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2025\/08\/28\/javad-zarif-trump-bibi\/\">\u201cTehran\u2019s Message to Trump: \u2018Stop Listening to Bibi\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Foreign Policy, 8-28-25.\u00a0 FP should respond, &#8220;Stop listening to Ali Khamenei&#8221; and see what Zarif says.<\/p>\n<p>Note the pattern, here again.\u00a0 Deny, but never discuss evidence.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/aug\/28\/iran-ambassador-ahmad-sadeghi-leaves-australia-airport\">\u201cExpelled ambassador says allegations against Iran \u2018baseless\u2019 during Sydney airport exit,\u201d<\/a> Guardian, 8-28-25.<\/p>\n<p>There is no due process in Iran.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn43k80przeo\">\u201cConcern after Iran couple &#8216;whisked into court&#8217;,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 8-28-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it has started.\u00a0 Iran hasn&#8217;t learned from the 12 Day War, and hasn&#8217;t understood that its intransigence to turn from nuclear weapons and to stop threatening others and to hope that Russia would save it, don&#8217;t work.\u00a0 In short, the theme of this blog continues.\u00a0 Until the Islamic Republic of Iran will stop striving &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/08\/28\/7903\/\" 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-7903","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\/7903","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=7903"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7931,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions\/7931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}