{"id":9351,"date":"2026-06-19T00:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9351"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T21:54:22","slug":"9351","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/06\/19\/9351\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is one of the best describing U.S. policy.\u00a0 (it does not account for variations in the President\u2019s communications).\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2026\/06\/19\/peace_through_strength_in_action.html\">\u201cPeace Through Strength in Action,\u201d<\/a> James Thorne, 6-19-26.<\/p>\n<p>Iran and Israel have agreed to hold fire in Lebanon.\u00a0 For now.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/06\/19\/israel-and-hezbollah-agree-to-renew-their-ceasefire-officials-say-00968751\">\u201cIsrael and Hezbollah agree to renew their ceasefire, officials say,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 6-19-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202606196591\">\u201cIRGC set up covert Iraqi cells to strike Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and UAE \u2013 Reuters,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 6-19-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/liveblog\/202606139149\">\u201cIran to get access to $6bn in frozen funds under interim deal \u2013 FT,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 6-19-26.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIran is set to receive access to $6 billion in oil revenues frozen in Qatar under the interim agreement with the United States, according to a report by the Financial Times.\u00a0\u00a0The newspaper said the funds would be released in phases during the 60-day negotiation period and could only be used to purchase humanitarian and other non-sanctioned goods from the United States.\u00a0\u00a0According to the report, the arrangement is intended to provide Tehran with limited economic relief while keeping strict restrictions on how the money can be spent.\u00a0\u00a0The funds are the same $6 billion transferred from South Korea to Qatar in 2023 as part of a prisoner exchange agreement between Washington and Tehran before access was effectively suspended following the October 7 attacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is one of the best describing U.S. policy.\u00a0 (it does not account for variations in the President\u2019s communications).\u00a0 \u201cPeace Through Strength in Action,\u201d James Thorne, 6-19-26. Iran and Israel have agreed to hold fire in Lebanon.\u00a0 For now.\u00a0 \u201cIsrael and Hezbollah agree to renew their ceasefire, officials say,\u201d Politico, 6-19-26. \u201cIRGC set up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/06\/19\/9351\/\" 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-9351","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\/9351","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=9351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9401,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}