{"id":38478,"date":"2025-06-23T11:22:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=38478"},"modified":"2025-06-24T15:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T19:32:32","slug":"nelsen-speaks-to-fox-carolina-ahead-of-u-s-strike-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/nelsen-speaks-to-fox-carolina-ahead-of-u-s-strike-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelsen speaks to FOX Carolina ahead of U.S. strike on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear facilities on June 21, Furman University&#8217;s Brent Nelsen spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2025\/06\/18\/expert-israel-iran-tensions\/\">FOX Carolina<\/a> anchor Justin Dougherty. Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs, commented on what a strike on Iran might mean for the U.S. including a failure in recent decades to &#8220;win the peace&#8221; in the Middle East following U.S. involvement in conflicts. He spoke about the &#8220;difficult moment&#8221; facing the Trump administration in light of history and the nuclear threat posed by Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman&#8217;s Brent Nelsen spoke to FOX Carolina News just days ahead of the U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. He described the &#8220;difficult moment&#8221; the U.S. faced on the question of using bunker-busting bombs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":26721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6,32],"tags":[2723],"class_list":["post-38478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-israel-iran-conflict"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38496,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38478\/revisions\/38496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}