{"id":8460,"date":"2026-01-11T06:29:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T12:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8460"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:48:44","slug":"8460","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/01\/11\/8460\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/world\/live-news\/iran-protests-01-11-26\">\u201cIran protesters defy brutal crackdown amid ongoing internet blackout,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 1-11-26.<\/p>\n<p>Blackmail of a sort.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/middle-east\/iran-eastern-states\/artc-iran-threatens-retaliation-against-israel-us-bases-if-washington-intervenes\">\u201cIran threatens retaliation against Israel, US bases if Washington intervenes,\u201d<\/a> I24, 1-11-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/11\/iranian-death-toll-spikes-00721390\">\u201cDeath toll in crackdown on protests in Iran spikes to at least 538, activists say,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 1-11-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/11\/world\/middleeast\/iran-president-protests-economy-response.html\">\u201cAs Death Toll Surges in Iran, Leaders Take Tough Line Against Protesters,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 1-11-26.<\/p>\n<p>Desperate it seems.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/01\/12\/trump-iran-protests-options-tehran-crackdown-death-toll\">\u201cTrump says Iran proposed nuclear deal talks, as U.S. weighs military action,\u201d<\/a> Axios, 1-11-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran protesters defy brutal crackdown amid ongoing internet blackout,\u201d CNN, 1-11-26. Blackmail of a sort.\u00a0 \u201cIran threatens retaliation against Israel, US bases if Washington intervenes,\u201d I24, 1-11-26. \u201cDeath toll in crackdown on protests in Iran spikes to at least 538, activists say,\u201d Politico, 1-11-26. \u201cAs Death Toll Surges in Iran, Leaders Take Tough Line Against &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/01\/11\/8460\/\" 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-8460","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\/8460","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=8460"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8508,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions\/8508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}