{"id":8342,"date":"2025-12-25T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T19:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2025-12-26T21:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:43:03","slug":"8342","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/25\/8342\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas.\u00a0 And when you read this news, you think \u201cHere on Dec. 25, why would Iran have a senior Quds Force officer in southern Lebanon, right across the border from Israel?\u00a0 Didn\u2019t Iran for years say it plays no role in Lebanon or Hezbollah or Syria?\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/israel\/defense\/artc-idf-conducts-nighttime-counter-terrorism-op-in-the-west-bank-live-blog\">\u201cIDF: Senior Iranian Quds Force Unit 840 terrorist killed in Lebanon | LIVE BLOG,\u201d<\/a> i24, 12-25-25.\u00a0\u00a0Well, he won\u2019t do that anymore.\u00a0 \u201cHussein Mahmoud Marshad al-Jawhari was killed in the Ansariyah area. He was described as a key member of the Quds Force\u2019s Operational Unit 840, responsible for planning and advancing terror attacks against Israel from both Syria and Lebanon in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2025-12-25\/Iran-voices-appreciation-for-China-s-JCPOA-role-at-UN-meeting-1JnMJ6Ppkcw\/p.html\">\u201cIran voices appreciation for China&#8217;s JCPOA role at UN meeting,\u201d<\/a> CGTN, 12-25-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/240154\/Iran-opens-2nd-largest-oil-processing-unit-in-West-Karun-area#:~:text=TEHRAN%2C%20Dec.%2025%20(MNA,Ahvaz%20on%20Thursday%20via%20videoconference.\">\u201cIran Launches 2nd Largest Oil Unit in West Karun,\u201d<\/a> Mehr, 12-25-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas.\u00a0 And when you read this news, you think \u201cHere on Dec. 25, why would Iran have a senior Quds Force officer in southern Lebanon, right across the border from Israel?\u00a0 Didn\u2019t Iran for years say it plays no role in Lebanon or Hezbollah or Syria?\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cIDF: Senior Iranian Quds Force Unit 840 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/25\/8342\/\" 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-8342","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\/8342","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=8342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8363,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions\/8363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}