{"id":9782,"date":"2026-10-20T05:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T10:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9782"},"modified":"2026-10-22T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:30:38","slug":"9782","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/10\/20\/9782\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/raf-fairford-security-incident-arrests-suspected-spying-iran\/\">\u201c2 men rearrested on suspicion of spying for Iran over suspected plot at U.S.-run air base in England,\u201d<\/a> CBS, 10-20-26.\u00a0\u00a0Laurence Taylor, head of National Counter Terrorism Policing in the U.K., said \u2026 \u201c[O]ur position remains the same; we consider it highly likely that there is Iranian state involvement.\u201d\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 Iranian officials have said several times since the beginning of the war that any bases used to attack the country would be considered legitimate targets. But the Iranian Embassy in London said in a previous statement that the regime &#8220;categorically rejects and strongly condemns the recent unfounded and malicious speculations published by some British individuals and media outlets attempting to link Iran&#8221; to the incident.\u201d\u00a0 If you\u2019ve watched the news on Iran for several years or followed this blog, you know this is M.O. for Iran\u2014threaten, but then don\u2019t want to be penalized for their acts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c2 men rearrested on suspicion of spying for Iran over suspected plot at U.S.-run air base in England,\u201d CBS, 10-20-26.\u00a0\u00a0Laurence Taylor, head of National Counter Terrorism Policing in the U.K., said \u2026 \u201c[O]ur position remains the same; we consider it highly likely that there is Iranian state involvement.\u201d\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 Iranian officials have said several times &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/10\/20\/9782\/\" 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-9782","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\/9782","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=9782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9783,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions\/9783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}