{"id":9518,"date":"2026-08-03T20:15:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9518"},"modified":"2026-08-04T22:19:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:19:59","slug":"9518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/08\/03\/9518\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seemingly contradictory since days ago Iran already said it was not following the MOU anymore.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/8\/3\/iran-war-live-trump-says-talks-set-to-begin-tehran-urges-us-to-honour-mou\">\u201cIran war live: Trump says talks to resume; Tehran urges US to honour MoU,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 8-3-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/middle-east\/artc-irgc-conducts-overnight-drone-attack-on-a-us-base-in-kuwait-live-blog\">\u201cIran and Oman make progress on a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, per US and Qatar | LIVE BLOG,\u201d<\/a> i24, 8-3-26.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cUnder the proposal, Oman would clear outbound vessels after notifying Iran, giving Tehran visibility over departing traffic and the ability to intervene if necessary.\u201d\u00a0 Don\u2019t let the IRGC say it needs control of the strait to provide \u201csafety\u201d\u2014that really means safety from it, blackmail to keep Iran from attacking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seemingly contradictory since days ago Iran already said it was not following the MOU anymore.\u00a0 \u201cIran war live: Trump says talks to resume; Tehran urges US to honour MoU,\u201d Al Jazeera, 8-3-26. \u201cIran and Oman make progress on a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, per US and Qatar | LIVE BLOG,\u201d i24, 8-3-26.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cUnder &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/08\/03\/9518\/\" 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-9518","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\/9518","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=9518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9521,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9518\/revisions\/9521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}