{"id":9669,"date":"2026-09-27T21:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T02:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9669"},"modified":"2026-10-01T21:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:59:32","slug":"9669","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/09\/27\/9669\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Remus 600, $3.5M.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/middle-east\/iran-guards-say-seized-us-underwater-drone-in-hormuz-3003391\">\u201cIran Guards say seized US underwater drone in Hormuz,\u201d<\/a> Arab News, 9-27-26.<\/p>\n<p>The new, heavy sanctions are having an effect.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/09\/27\/mike-waltz-iran-rejected-deal-sanctions-01094152\">\u201cWaltz says Iran wanted sanctions relief up front in rejected deal; Tehran pushes back,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 9-27-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-pressed-to-make-nuclear-concessions-to-revive-peace-talks-with-u-s-80016aff\">\u201cIran Is Pressed to Make Nuclear Concessions to Revive Peace Talks With U.S.,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 9-27-26.\u00a0\u00a0What I (and some others) have predicted is now true\u2014Iran is no longer a theocracy, but a thugocracy, run by a mafia-like military.\u00a0 \u201cBut Iran has given mediators little indication that it is ready to talk about its nuclear program.\u00a0 Iranian leaders are confident that they can withstand a long-term U.S. blockade or a renewed bombing campaign from the Americans, said Middle East government officials who speak with Tehran regularly. The officials said Iranian power is now concentrated in the hands of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a paramilitary and economic force that has long taken a hard line against compromise with the West.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Remus 600, $3.5M.\u00a0 \u201cIran Guards say seized US underwater drone in Hormuz,\u201d Arab News, 9-27-26. The new, heavy sanctions are having an effect.\u00a0 \u201cWaltz says Iran wanted sanctions relief up front in rejected deal; Tehran pushes back,\u201d Politico, 9-27-26. \u201cIran Is Pressed to Make Nuclear Concessions to Revive Peace Talks With U.S.,\u201d WSJ, 9-27-26.\u00a0\u00a0What &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/09\/27\/9669\/\" 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-9669","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\/9669","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=9669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9683,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669\/revisions\/9683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}