{"id":8025,"date":"2025-10-02T21:47:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8025"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:56:53","slug":"8025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/10\/02\/8025\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/02\/iran-may-release-hundreds-of-thousands-of-afghan-refugees-into-iraq-and-turkey\">\u201cIran may release hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees into Iraq and Turkey,\u201d<\/a> Guardian, 10-2-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202510026202\">\u201cIran signals \u2018strategic patience\u2019 after rejecting latest US proposal \u2013 IRNA,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 10-2-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/02\/lindsay-craig-foreman-family-british-couple-detained-in-iran\">\u201cFamily of British couple detained in Iran express alarm over ongoing trial,\u201d<\/a> Guardian, 10-2-25.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Leader tells Hezbollah to keep its weapson, and to rebuild.\u00a0 Iran cannot afford to lose another proxy, and its most important one.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-869255\">\u201cIran\u2019s Larijani pushes Hezbollah to rebuild, in warning to Israel and US \u2013 analysis,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 10-2-25.\u00a0\u00a0An argument can be made that once Hezbollah is lost, the entire Revolution is lost.<\/p>\n<p>Important.\u00a0 And Turkey does something right.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202510013556\">\u201cTurkey freezes assets linked to Iran\u2019s nuclear program,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 10-2-25.<\/p>\n<p>Not may be.\u00a0 Is.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/national-security\/5531209-iran-may-be-hamass-last-lifeline\/\">\u201cIran may be Hamas\u2019s last lifeline,\u201d<\/a> The Hill, 10-2-25.\u00a0 The issue is whether Iran is willing to lose another proxy.\u00a0 Iran doesn\u2019t actually care about Palestinians, but whether the Revolution continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran may release hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees into Iraq and Turkey,\u201d Guardian, 10-2-25. \u201cIran signals \u2018strategic patience\u2019 after rejecting latest US proposal \u2013 IRNA,\u201d Iran International, 10-2-25. \u201cFamily of British couple detained in Iran express alarm over ongoing trial,\u201d Guardian, 10-2-25. The Supreme Leader tells Hezbollah to keep its weapson, and to rebuild.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/10\/02\/8025\/\" 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-8025","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\/8025","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=8025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8053,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions\/8053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}