{"id":8614,"date":"2026-02-02T15:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8614"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:54:16","slug":"8614","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/02\/02\/8614\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/02\/02\/iran-nuclear-talks-trump-military\">\u201cU.S.-Iran nuclear talks planned for Friday amid military buildup,\u201d<\/a> Axios, 2-2-26.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWhite House envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi are expected to meet on Friday in Istanbul together with representatives of several Arab and Muslim countries to discuss a possible nuclear deal, according to two sources with knowledge and a U.S. official.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well put.\u00a0 Regime change is the order of the day.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/donald-trump-iran-talks-steve-witkoff-regime-change-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-f362676e?mod=hp_opin_pos_1\">\u201cThe \u2018Deal\u2019 in Iran Is Regime Change,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 2-2-26.\u00a0 Does the Leader want to stay, probably for most of the rest of his life, underground?\u00a0 He can&#8217;t go out in public, they will stone him.\u00a0 (How ironic).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cU.S.-Iran nuclear talks planned for Friday amid military buildup,\u201d Axios, 2-2-26.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWhite House envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi are expected to meet on Friday in Istanbul together with representatives of several Arab and Muslim countries to discuss a possible nuclear deal, according to two sources with knowledge and a U.S. official.\u201d Well &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/02\/02\/8614\/\" 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8614","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\/8614","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=8614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8623,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions\/8623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}