{"id":8377,"date":"2025-12-27T12:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T18:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8377"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:15:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:15:01","slug":"8377","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/27\/8377\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly you\u2019ve seen this headline.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/27\/iran-war-israel-trump-00706976\">\u201cIran at war with the West and Israel, says Iran&#8217;s president,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 12-27-25.\u00a0\u00a0Here\u2019s the quote from Masoud Pezeshkian, on the website of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran\u2019s supreme leader, lest there be any doubt.\u00a0 \u201cIn my opinion, we are in a full-fledged war with America, Israel, and Europe; they do not want our country to stand on its feet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2025\/12\/27\/iran-executes-record-number-of-people-after-spy-crackdown\/\">\u201cIran executes record number of people after spy crackdown,\u201d<\/a> Telegraph, 12-27-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/mef-observer\/the-year-in-review-irans-deepening-economic-crisis\">\u201cThe Year in Review: Iran\u2019s Deepening Economic Crisis,\u201d<\/a> Middle East Forum, 12-27-25.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cA Former Tehran Stock Exchange Official Recently Warned of a Potential Surge in Iran\u2019s Inflation to as High as 3,000 Percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ever the diplomat.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202512271483\">\u201cKhamenei says West opposes Iran over Islamic order, not nuclear issue,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 12-27-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly you\u2019ve seen this headline.\u00a0 \u201cIran at war with the West and Israel, says Iran&#8217;s president,\u201d Politico, 12-27-25.\u00a0\u00a0Here\u2019s the quote from Masoud Pezeshkian, on the website of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran\u2019s supreme leader, lest there be any doubt.\u00a0 \u201cIn my opinion, we are in a full-fledged war with America, Israel, and Europe; they do not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/27\/8377\/\" 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-8377","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\/8377","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=8377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8401,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions\/8401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}