{"id":8326,"date":"2025-12-19T08:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8326"},"modified":"2025-12-26T21:55:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:55:05","slug":"8326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/19\/8326\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202512195974\">\u201cRubio says top US problem with Iran is how it treats its people,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 12-19-25.\u00a0\u00a0Quote of the Day, from U.S. Sec. of State Marco Rubio.\u00a0 &#8220;You&#8217;ve got a clerical, radical regime that has driven and taken the wealth of that country and used it not to enrich their \u2013 secure their people and their future, not to make sure they have enough water and electricity,&#8221; Rubio added. &#8220;They&#8217;ve used their money to sponsor terrorist organizations all over the world.&#8221;\u00a0 Another quote on which this blog is based.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/understandingwar.org\/research\/middle-east\/iran-update-december-19-2025\/\">\u201cIran Update, December 19, 2025,\u201d<\/a> ISW, 12-19-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRubio says top US problem with Iran is how it treats its people,\u201d Iran International, 12-19-25.\u00a0\u00a0Quote of the Day, from U.S. Sec. of State Marco Rubio.\u00a0 &#8220;You&#8217;ve got a clerical, radical regime that has driven and taken the wealth of that country and used it not to enrich their \u2013 secure their people and their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/19\/8326\/\" 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-8326","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\/8326","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=8326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8370,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions\/8370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}