{"id":9639,"date":"2026-09-21T09:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9639"},"modified":"2026-09-28T18:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:41:30","slug":"9639","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/09\/21\/9639\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been waiting for this type of article.\u00a0 When the U.S. brought the economic sanctions hammer down on Iran two weeks ago, Iran decided to find a pressure point in an attempt to relieve the pressure.\u00a0 That involved Iran telling its proxie group to attack the Kingdom.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Politics\/houthis-escalating-attacks-saudi-arabia-give-iran-leverage\/story?id=136621129\">\u201cHouthis&#8217; escalating attacks on Saudi Arabia give Iran leverage in the Middle East,\u201d<\/a> ABC, 9-21-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202609218925\">\u201cUS targets Iranian airlines, Tehran threatens wider war,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 9-21-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/irans-president-gets-rare-opportunity-to-make-his-case-to-the-world-b8eaeafe?mod=hp_lead_pos6\">\u201cIran\u2019s President Gets Rare Opportunity to Make His Case to the World,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 9-21-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/international\/artc-iranian-foreign-minister-abbas-araghchi-arrives-in-new-york-ahead-of-the-unga-live-blog\">\u201cIranian FM reportedly met Witkoff at sidelines of UNGA to discuss Hormuz reopening | LIVE BLOG,\u201d<\/a> I24, 9-21-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been waiting for this type of article.\u00a0 When the U.S. brought the economic sanctions hammer down on Iran two weeks ago, Iran decided to find a pressure point in an attempt to relieve the pressure.\u00a0 That involved Iran telling its proxie group to attack the Kingdom.\u00a0 \u201cHouthis&#8217; escalating attacks on Saudi Arabia give Iran &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/09\/21\/9639\/\" 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-9639","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\/9639","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=9639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9668,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions\/9668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}