{"id":8385,"date":"2025-12-31T14:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8385"},"modified":"2026-01-11T16:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:53:26","slug":"8385","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/31\/8385\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/iran-launches-satellites-russian-rockets-moscow-tehran-ties-deepen\">\u201cIran launches satellites on Russian rockets as Moscow-Tehran ties deepen,\u201d<\/a> Fox, 12-31-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/31\/world\/middleeast\/iran-shutdown-protests.html\">\u201cMost of Iran Shuts Down as Government Grapples With Protests and Economy,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 12-31-25.\u00a0 &#8220;Amid mounting street protests, businesses, universities and government offices stayed closed Wednesday under government orders, in 21 of 31 provinces, including Tehran.\u201d\u00a0 These were ordered to a great extent by the government.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe disruptions caused by the days of protests came as footage circulating on social media on Wednesday and verified by The New York Times showed demonstrators throwing objects at the gates of a government building complex in Fasa, in south-central Iran, and then shaking them until they opened. The protests have spread and drawn in demonstrators from across sectors and society, with the demonstrators increasingly also expressing frustration and anger at the regime over not only the economy but severe water shortages and more. \u201cDeath to the dictator,\u201d protesters shouted at a demonstration in Hamedan in west-central Iran, according to a video posted by BBC Persian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iran-on-the-brink-key-information-about-the-protests\/a-75346485\">\u201cIran on the brink? Key information about the protests,\u201d<\/a> DW, 12-31-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/31\/we-want-the-mullahs-gone-economic-crisis-sparks-biggest-protests-in-iran-since-2022\">\u2018We want the mullahs gone\u2019: economic crisis sparks biggest protests in Iran since 2022,\u201d<\/a> Guardian, 12-31-25.\u00a0 Despite the massive brain drain over 40 plus years, the yearning for freedom resounds in Iran.\u00a0 That is a testament to its people and what the country could become.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/when-money-collapses-so-does-consent-irans-currency-crisis-and-bazaar-behavior\/\">\u201cWhen Money Collapses So Does Consent:\u00a0 Iran\u2019s Currency Crisis and Bazaar Behavior,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 12-31-2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran launches satellites on Russian rockets as Moscow-Tehran ties deepen,\u201d Fox, 12-31-25. \u201cMost of Iran Shuts Down as Government Grapples With Protests and Economy,\u201d NYT, 12-31-25.\u00a0 &#8220;Amid mounting street protests, businesses, universities and government offices stayed closed Wednesday under government orders, in 21 of 31 provinces, including Tehran.\u201d\u00a0 These were ordered to a great extent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/31\/8385\/\" 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-8385","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\/8385","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=8385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8471,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385\/revisions\/8471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}