{"id":8293,"date":"2025-12-14T14:38:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8293"},"modified":"2025-12-26T21:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:54:11","slug":"8293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/14\/8293\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is expected to oversee preparations for restructuring Hezbollah\u2019s internal leadership during an upcoming visit to Beirut.\u201d\u00a0 This is kind of like when the mafia sends a lieutenant to check on a regional hub and crack a few skulls to get the operation back on track.\u00a0 But here its enhanced because the actual head of Hezbollah may be removed, a first by Iran.\u00a0 They really don\u2019t want to loose this proxy after losing Syria.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/middle-east\/artc-report-iran-considers-removing-hezbollah-leader-naim-qassem\">\u201cReport: Iran considers removing Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem,\u201d<\/a> I24, 12-14-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-880277\">\u201cIsrael investigating whether Iran involved in deadly Bondi Beach shooting,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 12-14-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is expected to oversee preparations for restructuring Hezbollah\u2019s internal leadership during an upcoming visit to Beirut.\u201d\u00a0 This is kind of like when the mafia sends a lieutenant to check on a regional hub and crack a few skulls to get the operation back on track.\u00a0 But here its enhanced because &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/14\/8293\/\" 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-8293","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\/8293","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=8293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8369,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions\/8369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}