{"id":9510,"date":"2026-08-02T19:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T00:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9510"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T00:41:26","slug":"9510","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/08\/02\/9510\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/08\/02\/world\/live-news\/iran-war-trump\">\u201cTrump says Iran war talks to resume Monday after he called off strikes,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 8-2-26.<\/p>\n<p>But the public doesn\u2019t know the parameters yet.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/6004176-iran-deal-parameters-trump\/\">\u201cTrump halts Iran attack plan, citing agreed-upon deal outline,\u201d<\/a> The Hill, 8-2-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/gulf-states-pressed-trump-to-hold-off-on-iran-strikes-and-pursue-talks-03bcdb52\">\u201cGulf States Pressed Trump to Hold Off on Iran Strikes and Pursue Talks,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 8-2-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/irans-war-americans-began-decades-ago-families-still-carry-scars\">\u201cIran&#8217;s war on Americans began decades ago. These families still carry the scars,\u201d<\/a> Fox, 8-2-26.\u00a0\u00a0Since the 2003 Iraq War, \u201cfederal court findings. In cases involving hundreds of U.S. victims, judges found that Iran manufactured or supplied the weapons used in the attacks and that the assailants were trained or directed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.\u201d\u00a0 These included the deadly \u201cexplosively formed penetrators, or EFPs \u2014 sophisticated roadside bombs designed to punch through armored military vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrump says Iran war talks to resume Monday after he called off strikes,\u201d CNN, 8-2-26. But the public doesn\u2019t know the parameters yet.\u00a0 \u201cTrump halts Iran attack plan, citing agreed-upon deal outline,\u201d The Hill, 8-2-26. \u201cGulf States Pressed Trump to Hold Off on Iran Strikes and Pursue Talks,\u201d WSJ, 8-2-26. \u201cIran&#8217;s war on Americans began &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/08\/02\/9510\/\" 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-9510","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\/9510","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=9510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9511,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510\/revisions\/9511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}