{"id":8670,"date":"2026-02-20T09:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8670"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:13:44","slug":"8670","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/02\/20\/8670\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Pres. Trump\u2019s declaration that the Supreme Leader has approximately 10 days (to give up everything essentially, and to move to Moscow), there will probably be slow news the next week or so, as the past week or so.\u00a0 Remember, the Regime thinks it will last 1,000 years and will become the Shia Crescent across the Middle East.\u00a0 Its leaders get wealthy, the people must obey and suffer.\u00a0 Iran will give up very little over the last of the negotiating period, it will hunker down to avoid the oncoming bombings in retaliation for the Jan. 8-9 slaughter of its people.\u00a0 No other country is standing up for human rights as clearly as the U.S.\u00a0 (the UK would be wise to allow Fairford and Diego Garcia).\u00a0 Others are participating, but it will be up to the U.S. team to define which targets it wants to punish the Regime for the January killings.\u00a0 Those persons, and the Grand Ayatollah, are already in hiding.\u00a0 It is hard to communicate through message carriers.\u00a0 Ask Hamas.\u00a0 And Hezbollah.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c86yjnw4x49o\">\u201cTrump says world has 10 days to see if Iran agrees deal or &#8216;bad things happen&#8217;,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 2-20-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Pres. Trump\u2019s declaration that the Supreme Leader has approximately 10 days (to give up everything essentially, and to move to Moscow), there will probably be slow news the next week or so, as the past week or so.\u00a0 Remember, the Regime thinks it will last 1,000 years and will become the Shia Crescent across &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/02\/20\/8670\/\" 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-8670","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\/8670","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=8670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8671,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670\/revisions\/8671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}