{"id":9563,"date":"2026-08-20T10:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9563"},"modified":"2026-08-21T06:59:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:59:31","slug":"9563","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/08\/20\/9563\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCanada imposed sanctions Friday on five Iranian officials over activities it said obstructed navigation rights in and around the Strait of Hormuz and undermined international peace and security, Global Affairs Canada said in a news release.\u201d\u00a0 And \u201cNine European countries have aligned themselves with an EU decision imposing sanctions on six Iranians over serious human rights violations, the Council of the European Union said Friday.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/liveblog\/202608084952\">\u201cTrump says US will hit Iran economically as Iran has \u2018not a lot\u2019 of missiles, drones left,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 8-20-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/end-american-middle-east-iran-marc-lynch?utm_medium=newsletters&amp;utm_source=fatoday&amp;utm_campaign=The%20End%20of%20the%20American%20Middle%20East&amp;utm_content=20260820&amp;utm_id=B&amp;utm_term=FA%20Today_Newsletter\">\u201cThe End of the American Middle East:\u00a0 Iran and the Last Gasp of a Failed Order,\u201d<\/a> Foreign Affairs, 8-20-26.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe American Middle East is finished. The regional order that has prevailed since 1991 has been one of the many casualties of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. The American and Israeli failure to dislodge the regime in Tehran has proved the bankruptcy of decades of sanctions and violence. The inability of the United States to protect its Gulf allies from Iranian attacks or to keep the Strait of Hormuz open has fatally undermined the core security bargain that justified its network of military bases in the region. And Israel\u2019s increasingly threatening posture and abandonment of any pretense of interest in reaching an accommodation with the Palestinians have ended Washington\u2019s decades-long mission of bringing its Arab allies and Israel together into an enduring security partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iranwire.com\/en\/news\/156543-irgc-threatens-more-destructive-weapons-in-potential-conflict\/\">\u201cIRGC Threatens More Destructive Weapons in Potential Conflict,\u201d<\/a> IranWire, 8-20-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCanada imposed sanctions Friday on five Iranian officials over activities it said obstructed navigation rights in and around the Strait of Hormuz and undermined international peace and security, Global Affairs Canada said in a news release.\u201d\u00a0 And \u201cNine European countries have aligned themselves with an EU decision imposing sanctions on six Iranians over serious human &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/08\/20\/9563\/\" 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-9563","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\/9563","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=9563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9568,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions\/9568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}