{"id":8205,"date":"2025-11-21T11:36:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8205"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:38:39","slug":"8205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/11\/21\/8205\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran feels it has no other choice (well, they could decide to act as a normal country, or even a freedom preferring country like those in the West; hey, Russia could do that, too).\u00a0 This is not something foisted upon Iran by Israel and the U.S. (the headline is deceiving).\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/russia-eurasia\/politika\/2025\/11\/russia-iran-deterrence-plans?lang=en&amp;utm_source=carnegieemail&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=autoemail&amp;mkt_tok=ODEzLVhZVS00MjIAAAGeRWA0EbsrB7mvi8S4XTeilS61-0336QnxjfADXZTa7GoZk5pvtq1iU_AISbVxcW0g0qBgpEyUTSMZFK5BJt4T88uAqqwled18S_8MxuOTKg\">\u201cIran\u2019s Twelve-Day War Has Only Boosted Its Cooperation With Russia,\u201d<\/a> Carnegie, 11-21-25.<\/p>\n<p>I now have 4-5 stories of this type posted.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-874696\">\u201cIran\u2019s president calls relocating capital &#8216;unavoidable&#8217; amid overcrowding and water shortages,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 11-21-25.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2025\/nov\/21\/irans-president-says-moving-capital-tehran-unavoidable-due-mounting\/\">\u201cIran\u2019s president says moving capital from Tehran \u2018unavoidable\u2019 due to mounting water crisis,\u201d<\/a> Washington Times, 11-21-25.\u00a0\u00a0But note, there is nothing the government is actually doing to prepare for or even force the move.\u00a0 Typical, and historically consistent, mismanagement.\u00a0 What is it about this particular regime that is so poor at government planning, management, and policy execution?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran feels it has no other choice (well, they could decide to act as a normal country, or even a freedom preferring country like those in the West; hey, Russia could do that, too).\u00a0 This is not something foisted upon Iran by Israel and the U.S. (the headline is deceiving).\u00a0 See \u201cIran\u2019s Twelve-Day War Has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/11\/21\/8205\/\" 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-8205","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\/8205","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=8205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8206,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205\/revisions\/8206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}