{"id":8004,"date":"2025-09-25T21:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8004"},"modified":"2025-09-25T21:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:42:11","slug":"8004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/09\/25\/8004\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, a strong argument can be made that the turning point was the removal of Soleimani.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202509247025\">\u201cKhamenei comes up short in rhetorical duel with Trump,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 9-25-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/iran-likely-carried-out-undeclared-missile-test-satellite-photos-analyzed-by-ap-show\">\u201cIran likely carried out undeclared missile test, satellite photos analyzed by AP show,\u201d<\/a> PBS, AP, 9-25-25.\u00a0 PBS jumps on the bandwagon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deathpenaltyinfo.org\/iran-hits-1000-execution-mark-highest-total-in-three-decades\">\u201cIran Hits 1000 Execution Mark, Highest Total in Three Decades,\u201d<\/a> DPIC, 9-25-25.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you FDD.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/analysis\/2025\/09\/25\/iran-rebuilding-missile-sites-targeted-by-israel-during-extensive-air-strikes\/\">\u201cIran Rebuilding Missile Sites Targeted by Israel During Extensive Air Strikes,\u201d<\/a> FDD, 9-25-25.<\/p>\n<p>No one accused Mohammad Eslami of finishing an advanced degree in discreetness.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/irans-vice-president-says-it-wont-waver-its-nuclear-programme-2025-09-25\/\">\u201cIran&#8217;s vice president says it won&#8217;t waver from its nuclear programme,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 9-25-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, a strong argument can be made that the turning point was the removal of Soleimani.\u00a0 \u201cKhamenei comes up short in rhetorical duel with Trump,\u201d Iran International, 9-25-25. \u201cIran likely carried out undeclared missile test, satellite photos analyzed by AP show,\u201d PBS, AP, 9-25-25.\u00a0 PBS jumps on the bandwagon. \u201cIran Hits 1000 Execution Mark, Highest &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/09\/25\/8004\/\" 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-8004","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\/8004","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=8004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8013,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions\/8013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}