{"id":8516,"date":"2026-01-17T04:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8516"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:11:56","slug":"8516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/01\/17\/8516\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t do it solely on his request.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c70lx085z85o\">\u201cExiled crown prince urges world to help protesters topple Iran&#8217;s government,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 1-17-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/16\/g-s1-106345\/iran-protests-cleric-ayatollah-ahmad-khatami-trump-threat\">\u201cIran&#8217;s supreme leader acknowledges thousands killed as pressure builds on clerical rule,\u201d<\/a> NPR, 1-17-26.<\/p>\n<p>The internet blackout continues.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/uneasy-calm-in-iran-after-protests-trump-thanks-iranian-leader\/a-75545347\">\u201cIran enters uneasy calm after deadly anti-regime protests,\u201d<\/a> AP, AFP, 1-17-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran\/protests-iran-appear-slowed-khamenei-claims-trump-personally-encourage-rcna254509\">\u201cProtests in Iran appear to have slowed as Khamenei claims Trump personally &#8216;encouraged&#8217; unrest,\u201d<\/a> NBC, 1-17-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t do it solely on his request.\u00a0 \u201cExiled crown prince urges world to help protesters topple Iran&#8217;s government,\u201d BBC, 1-17-26. \u201cIran&#8217;s supreme leader acknowledges thousands killed as pressure builds on clerical rule,\u201d NPR, 1-17-26. The internet blackout continues.\u00a0 \u201cIran enters uneasy calm after deadly anti-regime protests,\u201d AP, AFP, 1-17-26. \u201cProtests in Iran appear to have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/01\/17\/8516\/\" 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-8516","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\/8516","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=8516"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8527,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions\/8527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}