{"id":9538,"date":"2026-08-12T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9538"},"modified":"2026-08-21T07:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:02:27","slug":"9538","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/08\/12\/9538\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/iran-says-no-progress-reviving-interim-peace-deal-with-us-2026-08-12\/\">\u201cIran says no progress on reviving interim peace deal with US,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 8-12-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/live-news\/iran-war-news-trump-israel-hormuz-august-12\">\u201cIran defies Trump, declares Strait of Hormuz blocked after president claims US has \u2018total control&#8217;,\u201d<\/a> Fox, 8-12-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/08\/12\/politics\/missile-threat-trump-plane\">\u201cSeveral close personal aides joined Trump on his secret flight from Turkey, source says,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 8-12-26.\u00a0\u00a0Keep in mind that Iran is trying to kill POTUS.\u00a0 No other country in the world is doing such.\u00a0 Other countries should condemn this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2026\/08\/12\/the-us-forgot-the-lessons-of-iraq-now-its-desperate-for-ideas-on-iran-01033217\">\u201cThe Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 8-12-26.\u00a0\u00a0Do read this article, as it reflects on the foreign policy missteps and the implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran says no progress on reviving interim peace deal with US,\u201d Reuters, 8-12-26. \u201cIran defies Trump, declares Strait of Hormuz blocked after president claims US has \u2018total control&#8217;,\u201d Fox, 8-12-26. \u201cSeveral close personal aides joined Trump on his secret flight from Turkey, source says,\u201d CNN, 8-12-26.\u00a0\u00a0Keep in mind that Iran is trying to kill POTUS.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/08\/12\/9538\/\" 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-9538","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\/9538","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=9538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9569,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions\/9569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}