{"id":8554,"date":"2026-01-23T01:39:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8554"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:03:12","slug":"8554","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/01\/23\/8554\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/1\/23\/trump-says-us-still-watching-iran-as-massive-fleet-heads-to-gulf-region\">\u201cTrump says US still \u2018watching Iran\u2018 as \u2018massive\u2019 fleet heads to Gulf region,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 1-23-26.<\/p>\n<p>Sick.\u00a0 The Ayatollah is being cursed for his forcing people to dig through corpses to find their loved ones he ordered shot.\u00a0 I\u2019m not making this up.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/23\/world\/middleeast\/iran-protests-victims-bodies.html\">\u201cThe Final Indignities Inflicted on Iran\u2019s Protest Victims,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 1-23-26.\u00a0\u00a0Quote of the Day\u2014\u201cThe word hatred is not strong enough to signify what people are feeling. It\u2019s over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/23\/middleeast\/iran-internet-blackout-violent-crackdown-intl-cmd\">\u201cThe night Iran went dark: Witness accounts and video reveal violence inflicted during Iran\u2019s internet blackout,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 1-23-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/middle-east\/iran-eastern-states\/artc-un-rights-chief-says-iranian-security-forces-followed-wounded-protesters-into-hospitals\">\u201cUN rights chief says Iranian security forces followed wounded protesters into hospitals,&#8221;<\/a> I24,\u00a01-23-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/iran-rasht-market-massacre-security-forces-civilian-death-shooting-tehran-attorney-human-rights\/33657982.html\">\u201cVideo Emerges Of Bodies In Rasht After Crackdown By Iranian Security Forces,\u201d<\/a> RFE\/RL, 1-23-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/analysis\/2026\/01\/23\/all-of-a-sudden-putin-is-willing-to-throw-iran-under-the-bus\/\">\u201cAll of a sudden, Putin is willing to throw Iran under the bus,\u201d<\/a> FDD, 1-23-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202601239044\">\u201cIran deployed militarized crackdown to hide protest killings \u2013 Amnesty,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 1-23-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/exiled-crown-prince-says-can-lead-iran-democracy-trump-hasnt-endorsed-rcna255415\">\u201cAn exiled crown prince says he can lead Iran to democracy, but Trump hasn&#8217;t endorsed him,\u201d<\/a> NBC, 1-23-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/1\/23\/trump-says-us-still-watching-iran-as-massive-fleet-heads-to-gulf-region\">\u201cTrump says US still \u2018watching Iran\u2018 as \u2018massive\u2019 fleet heads to Gulf region,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 1-23-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrump says US still \u2018watching Iran\u2018 as \u2018massive\u2019 fleet heads to Gulf region,\u201d Al Jazeera, 1-23-26. Sick.\u00a0 The Ayatollah is being cursed for his forcing people to dig through corpses to find their loved ones he ordered shot.\u00a0 I\u2019m not making this up.\u00a0 \u201cThe Final Indignities Inflicted on Iran\u2019s Protest Victims,\u201d NYT, 1-23-26.\u00a0\u00a0Quote of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/01\/23\/8554\/\" 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-8554","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\/8554","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=8554"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9067,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554\/revisions\/9067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}