{"id":8620,"date":"2026-02-03T15:32:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8620"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:33:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:33:51","slug":"8620","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/02\/03\/8620\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/middle-east\/artc-iran-signals-major-nuclear-concessions-in-bid-to-ease-tensions\">\u201cIran signals major nuclear concessions in bid to ease tensions,\u201d<\/a> i24, 2-3-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/middle-east\/iran-eastern-states\/artc-iranian-gunboats-try-to-stop-a-us-flagged-tanker-in-the-strait-of-hormuz\">\u201cIranian gunboats try to stop a US-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz \u2013 report,\u201d<\/a> i24, 2-3-26.\u00a0\u00a0Also of note, this story reports what we have observed seemingly forever, the Iranians say one thing day, another the next, then a third thing.\u00a0 Delay, delay, delay to stay in power.\u00a0 \u201cIranian officials reportedly threatened to withdraw from talks with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, scheduled for Friday in Turkey, according to people familiar with the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/03\/world\/middleeast\/iran-president-talks-istanbul-witkoff-kushner.html\">&#8220;Iran\u2019s President Backs \u2018Fair\u2019 Talks With U.S. as Confrontation Looms,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 2-3-26.\u00a0\u00a0Thank you U.S. Navy.\u00a0 \u201cA Navy fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone on Tuesday after it aggressively approached a U.S. aircraft carrier that was transiting the Arabian Sea, about 500 miles from Iran\u2019s southern coast.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran signals major nuclear concessions in bid to ease tensions,\u201d i24, 2-3-26. \u201cIranian gunboats try to stop a US-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz \u2013 report,\u201d i24, 2-3-26.\u00a0\u00a0Also of note, this story reports what we have observed seemingly forever, the Iranians say one thing day, another the next, then a third thing.\u00a0 Delay, delay, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/02\/03\/8620\/\" 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-8620","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\/8620","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=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8621,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions\/8621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}