{"id":8674,"date":"2026-02-23T09:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8674"},"modified":"2026-02-26T18:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:10:19","slug":"8674","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/02\/23\/8674\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You heard it here first:\u00a0 The Regime will not give up anything of consequence.\u00a0 It will not give up anything\/much regarding its nuclear program nor its ballistic missiles.\u00a0 They would allow the U.S. to attack in response to the killing of Iranian protesters.\u00a0 The Leader and his henchmen are just trying to stay alive at this point.\u00a0 But if you read this blog and the news regularly, you already knew this.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/23\/world\/middleeast\/iran-us-nuclear-talks-war.html\">\u201cFor Iran\u2019s Rulers, Refusing U.S. Demands Is a Risk Worth Taking,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 2-23-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/middle-east\/iran-eastern-states\/artc-iran-student-chant-death-to-the-islamic-republic-as-protests-continue-for-3rd-day\">\u201cIran: student chant &#8216;death to Islamic Republic&#8217; as protests continue for 3rd day,\u201d<\/a> I24, 2-23-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/international\/artc-hard-to-see-trump-continue-talks-if-gaps-remain-after-iran-submits-draft-proposal-on-tuesday-u-s-official-tells-i24news\">\u201c&#8217;Hard to see&#8217; Trump continue talks if gaps remain after Iran submits draft proposal on Tuesday, U.S. official tells i24NEWS,\u201d<\/a> 2-23-26.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cTuesday&#8217;s round of talks understood to be a last chance saloon for the Iranians before a U.S. strike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/23\/technology\/binance-employees-iran-firings.html\">\u201cBinance Employees Find $1.7 Billion in Crypto Was Sent to Iranian Entities,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 2-23-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You heard it here first:\u00a0 The Regime will not give up anything of consequence.\u00a0 It will not give up anything\/much regarding its nuclear program nor its ballistic missiles.\u00a0 They would allow the U.S. to attack in response to the killing of Iranian protesters.\u00a0 The Leader and his henchmen are just trying to stay alive at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/02\/23\/8674\/\" 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-8674","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\/8674","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=8674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8687,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8674\/revisions\/8687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}