{"id":8094,"date":"2025-10-21T19:58:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8094"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:21:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:21:29","slug":"8094","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/10\/21\/8094\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mass media doesn\u2019t usually cover the drug, terror, missile tech sharing, etc. between Iran and several countries in South America.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornyn.senate.gov\/news\/cornyn-chairs-drug-caucus-hearing-on-hezbollahs-drug-trafficking-in-latin-america\/\">\u201cCornyn Chairs Drug Caucus Hearing on Hezbollah\u2019s Drug Trafficking in Latin America,\u201d<\/a> Office of John Cornyn, 10-21-25.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the SA-I agreement was not enough for SA security, no surprise there.\u00a0 This looks like another step toward SA-Israel normalization, bad news for the continuing miscalculations of Iran.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mohammed-bin-salman-white-house-visit-november-18-trump-saudi-arabia\/\">\u201cSaudi Arabia&#8217;s Mohammed bin Salman to visit White House on Nov. 18, sources say,\u201d<\/a> CBS, 10-21-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202510211981\">\u201cIran will turn region into &#8216;hell&#8217; if attacked, Guards commander warns,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 10-21-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/un-sanctions-raise-risk-severe-recession-renewed-unrest-iran-2025-10-21\/\">\u201cIran risks severe economic downturn, unrest as renewed UN sanctions bite,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 10-21-25.<\/p>\n<p>He has set up this system of \u201cgoverning\u201d for years now, and he stays above the fray.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202510206198\">\u201cFractured republic: Iran\u2019s elites fight it out in Khamenei\u2019s twilight,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 10-21-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mass media doesn\u2019t usually cover the drug, terror, missile tech sharing, etc. between Iran and several countries in South America.\u00a0 See \u201cCornyn Chairs Drug Caucus Hearing on Hezbollah\u2019s Drug Trafficking in Latin America,\u201d Office of John Cornyn, 10-21-25. I guess the SA-I agreement was not enough for SA security, no surprise there.\u00a0 This looks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/10\/21\/8094\/\" 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-8094","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\/8094","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=8094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8181,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094\/revisions\/8181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}