{"id":8636,"date":"2026-02-07T02:39:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T08:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8636"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:12:08","slug":"8636","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/02\/07\/8636\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every cause\/people\/subjugated group by Iran\u2019s definition and help (really to make them proxies, such as Hezbollah, the Iraqi groups, the Alawites, Houthis, Hamas, Palestinians, etc.) has failed in the last 45 years.\u00a0 Other countries, dozens, have had to push back by Iran\u2019s attempts to revolutionize the region and grow the Shia Crescent.\u00a0 So for the Leader and Araghchi to make these arguments against Israel (which are not consistent with history and state actions) is the pot calling the kettle black.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/middle-east\/artc-hitting-out-at-israel-s-expansionist-project-iran-s-araghchi-says-region-must-not-be-reshaped-by-force\">\u201cHitting out at Israel&#8217;s &#8216;expansionist project,&#8217; Iran&#8217;s Araghchi says region &#8216;must not be reshaped by force&#8217;,\u201d<\/a> i-24, 2-7-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/iran-nuclear-sites-satellite-images-9.7078130\">\u201cSatellite images may reveal Iran trying to recover material from bombed nuclear sites,\u201d<\/a> CBC, 2-7-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every cause\/people\/subjugated group by Iran\u2019s definition and help (really to make them proxies, such as Hezbollah, the Iraqi groups, the Alawites, Houthis, Hamas, Palestinians, etc.) has failed in the last 45 years.\u00a0 Other countries, dozens, have had to push back by Iran\u2019s attempts to revolutionize the region and grow the Shia Crescent.\u00a0 So for the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/02\/07\/8636\/\" 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-8636","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\/8636","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=8636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8641,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636\/revisions\/8641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}