{"id":8274,"date":"2025-12-05T18:52:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8274"},"modified":"2025-12-26T20:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:31:44","slug":"8274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/05\/8274\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/report-iran-launches-massive-missiles-naval-drill-strait-128134734\">\u201cReport: Iran launches massive missiles during a naval drill near Strait of Hormuz,\u201d<\/a> AP, 12-5-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/world\/2025\/12\/iran-to-play-at-least-one-world-cup-game-on-u-s-soil\/\">\u201cIran to play at least one World Cup game on U.S. soil,\u201d<\/a> AP, WTOP, 12-5-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-lifts-iran-visa-ban-2026-world-cup-draw-11160414\">\u201cTrump Lifts Iran Visa Ban for 2026 World Cup Draw,\u201d<\/a> Newsweek, 12-5-25.<\/p>\n<p>This goes to the motivation for Iran to incite Hamas.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/toi-reveals-us-and-saudis-reached-understandings-on-palestinian-component-of-normalization-before-oct-7\/\">\u201cToI reveals: US and Saudis reached understandings on Palestinian component of normalization before Oct. 7,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 12-5-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202512055348\">&#8220;Iran issues withering rebuke of UAE in wake of Yemen offensive,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 12-5-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cReport: Iran launches massive missiles during a naval drill near Strait of Hormuz,\u201d AP, 12-5-25. \u201cIran to play at least one World Cup game on U.S. soil,\u201d AP, WTOP, 12-5-25 \u201cTrump Lifts Iran Visa Ban for 2026 World Cup Draw,\u201d Newsweek, 12-5-25. This goes to the motivation for Iran to incite Hamas.\u00a0 \u201cToI reveals: US &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/05\/8274\/\" 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-8274","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\/8274","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=8274"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8360,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274\/revisions\/8360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}