{"id":9464,"date":"2026-07-16T10:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9464"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:08:31","slug":"9464","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/07\/16\/9464\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/07\/16\/world\/iran-war-trump-hormuz\">\u201cIran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Escalate Attacks, While Hinting at Diplomacy,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 7-16-26.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sometimes surprised when someone says that Hezbollah or the Houthis are independent.\u00a0 Here\u2019s proof again, and in the headline.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-tells-houthis-close-red-sea-gateway-if-us-hits-power-network-sources-say-2026-07-16\/\">\u201cIran tells Houthis to close Red Sea gateway if US hits power network, sources say,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 7-16-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/middle-east\/iran-eastern-states\/artc-why-the-strait-of-hormuz-has-become-the-center-of-a-global-maritime-dispute\">\u201cWhy the Strait of Hormuz has become the center of a global maritime dispute,\u201d<\/a> i24, 7-16-26.\u00a0\u00a0The U.S. doesn\u2019t need to seize Kharg Island if the U.S. Navy stops Iran-related ships at Hormuz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Escalate Attacks, While Hinting at Diplomacy,\u201d NYT, 7-16-26. I\u2019m sometimes surprised when someone says that Hezbollah or the Houthis are independent.\u00a0 Here\u2019s proof again, and in the headline.\u00a0 \u201cIran tells Houthis to close Red Sea gateway if US hits power network, sources say,\u201d Reuters, 7-16-26. \u201cWhy the Strait &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/07\/16\/9464\/\" 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-9464","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\/9464","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=9464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9468,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464\/revisions\/9468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}