{"id":8250,"date":"2025-12-03T05:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8250"},"modified":"2025-12-26T20:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:30:30","slug":"8250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/03\/8250\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/world-news\/360908406\/irans-currency-falls-new-low-nuclear-sanctions-squee\">\u201cIran&#8217;s currency falls to a new low as nuclear sanctions squeeze its ailing economy,\u201d<\/a> Stuff, 12-3-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202512031430\">\u201cIran moderates sound alarm over lost role as buffer between state, people,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 12-3-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20251203-the-war-no-one-declares-inside-the-mossad-iran-shadow-conflict\/\">\u201cThe war no one declares: Inside the Mossad\u2013Iran shadow conflict,\u201d<\/a> MEMO, 12-3-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kavehmadani\/2025\/12\/03\/6-big-questions-about-irans-water-crisis-and-tehrans-day-zero\/\">\u201c6 Big Questions About Iran\u2019s Water Crisis And Tehran\u2019s Day Zero,\u201d<\/a> Forbes, 12-3-25.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cOver the long term, Iran must pivot from a resistance economy to a resilience economy.\u201d\u00a0 Absolutely!\u00a0 This is the point of this blog, that the 1979 Revolution has detoured Iran from its real calling, to be a normal country, to take care of its people, to be a rational actor among its Middle East neighbors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpoliticsreview.com\/iran-sanctions-nuclear-program\/\">\u201cWith the Nuclear Deal Gone, Iran\u2019s Back Is to the Wall,\u201d<\/a> WPR, 12-3-25.<\/p>\n<p>Who would have thought?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/us-sends-1-attack-drones-middle-east\/story?id=128022311\">\u201cUS sends 1-way attack drones to the Middle East,\u201d<\/a> ABC, 12-3-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/12\/03\/politics\/drones-us-iran-middle-east\">\u201cUS sets up one-way attack drone squadron in the Middle East after reverse-engineering Iranian drone,\u201d<\/a> Budapest, 12-3-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran&#8217;s currency falls to a new low as nuclear sanctions squeeze its ailing economy,\u201d Stuff, 12-3-25. \u201cIran moderates sound alarm over lost role as buffer between state, people,\u201d Iran International, 12-3-25. \u201cThe war no one declares: Inside the Mossad\u2013Iran shadow conflict,\u201d MEMO, 12-3-25. \u201c6 Big Questions About Iran\u2019s Water Crisis And Tehran\u2019s Day Zero,\u201d Forbes, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/03\/8250\/\" 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-8250","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\/8250","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=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8359,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions\/8359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}