{"id":9503,"date":"2026-07-30T14:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9503"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T00:43:50","slug":"9503","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/07\/30\/9503\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c39ez3klwmro\">\u201cDrone attack caused fire on gas ships at Mediterranean port, Egypt says,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 7-30-26.<\/p>\n<p>And when we say the Houthis are working with Iraqi armed groups loyal to Iran, such as Kataib Hezbollah, that is just one more message that Iran is coordinating in not in some ways controlling the Houthis.\u00a0 The Regime certainly arms and trains their friends in Yemen.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/yemens-houthis-are-attacking-saudi-arabia-iraq-sources-say-2026-07-30\/\">\u201cYemen&#8217;s Houthis are attacking Saudi Arabia from Iraq, sources say,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 7-30-26.\u00a0\u00a0The article also mentions the Houthi red and green posters with the \u201cSarkha\u201d motto of \u201cGod \u200bis greatest, death to America, death to \u200bIsrael, curse the Jews, victory to Islam.\u201d\u00a0 They forgot the death to Saudi Arabia part, whom they have been fighting for years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/29\/middleeast\/why-iran-chose-to-restart-the-fight-us-intl\">\u201cWhy Iran chose to restart the fight after the US stopped firing,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 7-30-26.\u00a0 See also the following, because this question is easy.\u00a0 Because Iran wants to do what it can to survive.\u00a0 It is willing, to attack anyone, from its own civilians to its former allies.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-war-saudi-iraq-yemen-egypt-85aefd04354af77b20999da367c297f2\">\u201cHere\u2019s why new fronts seem to be opening up across the Middle East,\u201d<\/a> AP, 7-30-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDrone attack caused fire on gas ships at Mediterranean port, Egypt says,\u201d BBC, 7-30-26. And when we say the Houthis are working with Iraqi armed groups loyal to Iran, such as Kataib Hezbollah, that is just one more message that Iran is coordinating in not in some ways controlling the Houthis.\u00a0 The Regime certainly arms &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/07\/30\/9503\/\" 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-9503","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\/9503","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=9503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9514,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503\/revisions\/9514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}