{"id":8663,"date":"2026-02-17T14:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8663"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:22:40","slug":"8663","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/02\/17\/8663\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/17\/us\/politics\/us-iran-nuclear-talks.html\">\u201cU.S. and Iran Make \u2018Good Progress\u2019 in Geneva Talks, Foreign Minister Says,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 2-17-26.\u00a0\u00a0The key to this story is notice that the info comes from the Iranian FM, not the U.S. or anyone else.\u00a0 Trying to shape the narrative.\u00a0 It has been somewhat difficult these past ten days or so following what is really happening in the negotiations.\u00a0 The U.S. is giving Iran a chance, and has the upper hand.\u00a0 But Iran, as it always does under the Regime, hesitates, hesitates, hesitates, always wanting to hang onto the Revolution.\u00a0 This means proxies, terror, missiles, the Shia Crescent.\u00a0 So it should be no surprise they aren\u2019t appearing to really give up anything.<\/p>\n<p>So notice the next story from the WSJ.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-pitches-new-ideas-in-nuclear-talksbut-not-the-one-that-matters-to-trump-6e297cf0?mod=hp_lead_pos4\">\u201cVance Says Iran Is Ignoring Core U.S. Demands in Talks,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 2-17-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cU.S. and Iran Make \u2018Good Progress\u2019 in Geneva Talks, Foreign Minister Says,\u201d NYT, 2-17-26.\u00a0\u00a0The key to this story is notice that the info comes from the Iranian FM, not the U.S. or anyone else.\u00a0 Trying to shape the narrative.\u00a0 It has been somewhat difficult these past ten days or so following what is really happening &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/02\/17\/8663\/\" 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-8663","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\/8663","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=8663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8665,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663\/revisions\/8665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}