{"id":41833,"date":"2026-04-09T10:47:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41833"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:51:19","slug":"brent-nelsen-unpacks-latest-news-on-u-s-israel-conflict-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/brent-nelsen-unpacks-latest-news-on-u-s-israel-conflict-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Nelsen unpacks latest news on U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In two interviews appearing on local TV stations, Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/brent-nelsen\/\">Brent Nelsen<\/a> offers his insights before and after the two-week ceasefire in the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran. On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/iran-strait-of-hormuz-threat-oil-prices\/70957732\">WYFF News 4<\/a>, Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs, talks about the threatening, &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; rhetoric from the White House concerning the Iran-controlled Strait of Hormuz. And later, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2026\/04\/08\/political-analyst-conflict-iran-after-ceasefire-agreement\/\">FOX Carolina<\/a>, Nelsen comments on Tuesday&#8217;s ceasefire with Iran. He lays out best-case and worst-case scenarios for the Trump administration ahead of midterm elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman&#8217;s Brent Nelsen offers comments before and after Tuesday&#8217;s ceasefire in the U.S.-Israel war on Iran. He speaks with reporters from FOX Carolina News and WYFF News 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6,32,3508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-wyff-news-4"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41833","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=41833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41840,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41833\/revisions\/41840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}