{"id":9248,"date":"2026-06-03T16:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9248"},"modified":"2026-06-30T00:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:57:10","slug":"9248","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/06\/03\/9248\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/06\/03\/world\/iran-war-trump-israel-lebanon\">\u201cIran War Live Updates: Iran Attacks Gulf Nations, Further Straining Cease-Fire,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 6-3-26.<\/p>\n<p>The fear of Iran should have driven this years ago.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/liveblog\/202605308417\">\u201cPersian Gulf states explore pipeline projects to bypass Strait of Hormuz,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 6-3-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/israel\/diplomacy\/artc-israel-lebanon-agree-on-plan-to-drive-hezbollah-north-of-the-litani-river\">\u201cIsrael, Lebanon agree on plan to drive Hezbollah north of the Litani River,\u201d<\/a> I24, 6-3-26.\u00a0 &#8220;\u201cWe brought the people of Lebanon to the understanding that we&#8217;re not the enemy. Hezbollah is,\u201d said Yechiel Leiter, Israel\u2019s US ambassador.&#8221;\u00a0 When you read &#8220;Hezbollah&#8221; you should always think &#8220;Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Big news.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/israel\/artc-us-house-approves-war-powers-resolution-halting-military-actions-against-iran-live-blog\">\u201cUS House approves war powers resolution halting military actions against Iran | LIVE BLOG,\u201d<\/a> I24, 6-3-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/06\/03\/g-s1-125566\/iran-war-updates\">\u201cKuwait says Iranian drones hit airport and killed 1 as ceasefire is tested again,\u201d<\/a> AP, NPR, 6-3-26.<\/p>\n<p>But this is not on paper.\u00a0 Yet.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/trump-says-iran-has-agreed-not-have-nuclear-weapon-2026-06-03\/\">\u201cTrump says Iran has agreed to not have a nuclear weapon,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 6-3-26.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with Secretary Rice.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/what-the-u-s-has-accomplished-in-iran-60b21e52?mod=hp_opin_pos_1\">\u201cWhat the U.S. Has Accomplished in Iran,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 6-3-26.\u00a0 &#8220;The regime is much weaker, and time is on the side of the U.S. and its allies that want a more stable region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/israel-and-lebanon-agree-to-renew-fragile-ceasefire-create-lebanese-security-zones\">\u201cIsrael and Lebanon agree to renew fragile ceasefire, create Lebanese security zones,\u201d<\/a> PBS, 6-3-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran War Live Updates: Iran Attacks Gulf Nations, Further Straining Cease-Fire,\u201d NYT, 6-3-26. The fear of Iran should have driven this years ago.\u00a0 \u201cPersian Gulf states explore pipeline projects to bypass Strait of Hormuz,\u201d Iran International, 6-3-26. \u201cIsrael, Lebanon agree on plan to drive Hezbollah north of the Litani River,\u201d I24, 6-3-26.\u00a0 &#8220;\u201cWe brought the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/06\/03\/9248\/\" 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-9248","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\/9248","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=9248"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9365,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions\/9365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}