{"id":9831,"date":"2026-11-05T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9831"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:38:12","slug":"9831","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/11\/05\/9831\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/11\/05\/trump-iran-war-midterm-defeat-bad-options\">\u201cAfter midterm defeat, Trump faces mostly bad options in Iran,\u201d<\/a> Axios, 11-5-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/nov\/05\/russia-agreed-to-supply-iran-90-helicopter-missile-launchers\">\u201cRussia agreed to supply Iran with 90 helicopter missile launchers,\u201d<\/a> Guardian, 11-5-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/nov\/05\/russia-agreed-to-supply-iran-90-helicopter-missile-launchers\">\u201cMiddle East conflict: Trump warns of \u2018heavy hit\u2019 as Iran says Americans voted \u2018no to war\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Gulf News, 11-5-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/05\/world\/middleeast\/peace-talks-iran-united-states-qatar-nuclear-program.html\">\u201cIran is Reviewing \u2018Concrete Proposals\u2019 on Nuclear Program, Officials Say,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 11-5-26.\u00a0 &#8220;Iran\u2019s willingness to re-engage on the issue suggests that Qatar-led diplomatic efforts to avert full-blown war between the U.S. and Iran have had some success.\u201d\u00a0 But it is also an indication, especially as the next week or so goes by, that Iran knows it has an opportunity on the nuclear front.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/tankers-hit-hormuz-iran-keeps-up-pressure-after-us-vote-2026-11-05\/\">\u201cTankers hit in Hormuz as Iran keeps up pressure after US vote,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 11-5-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter midterm defeat, Trump faces mostly bad options in Iran,\u201d Axios, 11-5-26. \u201cRussia agreed to supply Iran with 90 helicopter missile launchers,\u201d Guardian, 11-5-26. \u201cMiddle East conflict: Trump warns of \u2018heavy hit\u2019 as Iran says Americans voted \u2018no to war\u2019,\u201d Gulf News, 11-5-26. \u201cIran is Reviewing \u2018Concrete Proposals\u2019 on Nuclear Program, Officials Say,\u201d NYT, 11-5-26.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/11\/05\/9831\/\" 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-9831","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\/9831","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=9831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9843,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions\/9843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}