{"id":8085,"date":"2025-10-17T21:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8085"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:16:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:16:54","slug":"8085","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/10\/17\/8085\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story surmises that Pres. Trump is trying to get Russia to get Iran to do something.\u00a0 It might not be that, though, it may be another indication of the closeness between two less than good actors.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/iran-messages-putin-before-trump-russian-showdown-10894370\">\u201cIran Messages Putin Before Trump\u2019s Russian Showdown,\u201d<\/a> Newsweek, 10-17-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/irans-execution-rate-tops-1000-year-death-row-inmates-launch-hunger-strike\">\u201cIran\u2019s execution rate tops 1,000 this year as death row inmates launch hunger strike,\u201d<\/a> Fox, 10-17-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cwy534vw28go\">\u201cSmuggler jailed for 40 years after shipping ballistic missile parts from Iran,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 10-17-25.<\/p>\n<p>I think there will be a program, but not 80,000 enforcers.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202510179762\">\u201cIran to mobilize 80,000 volunteers for hijab campaign, official says,&#8221;<\/a> Iran International, 10-17-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/farda-briefing-iran-shadow-fleet-oil-tankers-activation\/33561792.html\">\u201cIran&#8217;s Sudden And Brief &#8216;Shadow Fleet&#8217; Reveal,\u201d<\/a> RFE\/RL, 10-17-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story surmises that Pres. Trump is trying to get Russia to get Iran to do something.\u00a0 It might not be that, though, it may be another indication of the closeness between two less than good actors.\u00a0 \u201cIran Messages Putin Before Trump\u2019s Russian Showdown,\u201d Newsweek, 10-17-25. \u201cIran\u2019s execution rate tops 1,000 this year as death &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/10\/17\/8085\/\" 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-8085","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\/8085","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=8085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8090,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085\/revisions\/8090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}