{"id":9161,"date":"2026-05-05T16:17:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2026-05-10T21:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:25:48","slug":"9161","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/05\/05\/9161\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, there\u2019s something to this per the UK PM.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-keir-starmer-iran-britain-wont-tolerate-incitement-antisemitism\/\">\u201cStarmer to Iran: Britain won\u2019t tolerate incitement of antisemitism,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 5-5-26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">Remember, they\u2019re all hardliners.\u00a0 It is a question of tactics, and (physical) survival.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202605041507\">\u201cPezeshkian brands IRGC escalation \u2018madness\u2019 as tensions rise in Tehran,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 5-5-26.\u00a0 Iran&#8217;s president sees that the drone and missile strikes on UAE is driving UAE further toward Israel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/05\/05\/iran-war-trump-hormuz-ships-peace-talks\">\u201cTrump suspends Hormuz operation, claims progress on Iran deal,\u201d<\/a> Axios, 5-5-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, there\u2019s something to this per the UK PM.\u00a0 \u201cStarmer to Iran: Britain won\u2019t tolerate incitement of antisemitism,\u201d Politico, 5-5-26. Remember, they\u2019re all hardliners.\u00a0 It is a question of tactics, and (physical) survival.\u00a0 \u201cPezeshkian brands IRGC escalation \u2018madness\u2019 as tensions rise in Tehran,\u201d Iran International, 5-5-26.\u00a0 Iran&#8217;s president sees that the drone and missile strikes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/05\/05\/9161\/\" 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9161","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\/9161","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=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9192,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions\/9192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}