{"id":9643,"date":"2026-09-23T07:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9643"},"modified":"2026-10-01T22:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:57:08","slug":"9643","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/09\/23\/9643\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/china-iran-aid-xi-trump-summit-e6541ae8?mod=hp_lead_pos7\">\u201cIran Has a Secret Weapon in Its War With America: Help From China,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 9-23-26.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIranian customs data show Chinese entities have made thousands of shipments of components used in drones and missiles.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0This blog has recorded this problem dozens of times.\u00a0 In the blog I use the term &#8220;enablng.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Really rich.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/09\/23\/pezeshkian-trump-iran-terrorists-victims\">\u201cIran president: We have been &#8220;victims of terrorism,&#8221;<\/a> Axios, 9-23-26.\u00a0 But by everyone else\u2019s definition, Iran fails.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/09\/23\/irans-president-warns-trump-it-will-not-bend-at-the-knee-01089425\">\u201cIran\u2019s president warns Trump it will not \u2018bend at the knee\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 9-23-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202609234976\">\u201cPezeshkian squeezed at home over meeting Trump in New York,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 9-23-26.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, China can get all the (cheap) oil they need elsewhere.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/09\/25\/trump-xi-china-iran-war-support\">\u201cTrump asked Xi to stop supporting Iran,\u201d<\/a> Axios, 9-23-26.<\/p>\n<p>See?\u00a0 The Regime is behind it.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/yemen-houthis-iran-war-red-sea-battle-e32ed78eb9b528642d043d4303192927\">\u201cIranian advisers helped Houthis seize Yemen\u2019s Red Sea coast in less than 48 hours, sources tell AP,\u201d<\/a> AP, 9-23-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-paralyse-airports-neighbouring-countries-if-they-stop-iranian-2026-09-23\/\">\u201cIran threatens to paralyse airports in neighbouring countries if they stop Iranian flights,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 9-23-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran Has a Secret Weapon in Its War With America: Help From China,\u201d WSJ, 9-23-26.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIranian customs data show Chinese entities have made thousands of shipments of components used in drones and missiles.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0This blog has recorded this problem dozens of times.\u00a0 In the blog I use the term &#8220;enablng.&#8221; Really rich.\u00a0 \u201cIran president: We have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/09\/23\/9643\/\" 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-9643","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\/9643","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=9643"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9694,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643\/revisions\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}