{"id":9198,"date":"2026-04-23T06:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9198"},"modified":"2026-05-11T06:56:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:56:01","slug":"9198","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/04\/23\/9198\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/trump-says-lebanon-and-israel-agree-to-extend-israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-by-3-weeks-24028ebf1c32476c9de673cb06f5b108\">\u201cTrump says Lebanon and Israel agree to extend Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire by 3 weeks,\u201d<\/a> 4-23-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/22\/world\/live-news\/iran-war-us-trump-blockade-ceasefire\">\u201cDay 54 of Middle East conflict &#8211; Trump says no timeline,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 4-23-26.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not convinced this article gets it right.\u00a0 The IRGC was already on the ascent for 15 years plus.\u00a0 Here there is simply no Leader and the next appointed leader is a figurehead (bad pun).\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/23\/world\/middleeast\/iran-new-leadership-generals.html\">\u201cA New Era and New Leadership: The Generals Who Are Running Iran,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 4-23-26.<\/p>\n<p>Another blow for Iran, but when will Hezbollah lose its weapons?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/iran-war-israel-trump-04-23-2026\">\u201cIsrael and Lebanon agree to extend ceasefire by 3 weeks, Trump says,\u201d<\/a> AP, 4-23-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrump says Lebanon and Israel agree to extend Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire by 3 weeks,\u201d 4-23-26. \u201cDay 54 of Middle East conflict &#8211; Trump says no timeline,\u201d CNN, 4-23-26. I\u2019m not convinced this article gets it right.\u00a0 The IRGC was already on the ascent for 15 years plus.\u00a0 Here there is simply no Leader and the next &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/04\/23\/9198\/\" 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-9198","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\/9198","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=9198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9201,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198\/revisions\/9201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}