{"id":42657,"date":"2026-07-10T18:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42657"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:26:11","slug":"brent-nelsen-talks-about-u-s-iran-ceasefire-housing-act-on-fox-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/brent-nelsen-talks-about-u-s-iran-ceasefire-housing-act-on-fox-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Nelsen talks about U.S.-Iran ceasefire, Housing Act on FOX Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Iranian strikes on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that the ceasefire in the war was effectively over. <a href=\"https:\/\/insight.tveyes.com\/public\/media-center\/4991e0cd-5f52-4bd1-9a6c-16cf6945b050\/d4aef7d9-a26a-4dc5-b973-0249f5183a8f\">FOX Carolina News<\/a> turned to Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/brent-nelsen\/\">Brent Nelsen<\/a> for comment. Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/politics-international-affairs\/\">Politics and International Affairs<\/a>, told FOX Carolina the action represented &#8220;a difficult moment&#8221; for the warring parties because a failure to achieve a durable ceasefire renders an unstable and uncertain path forward. In the same interview, Nelsen spoke about the gridlock in Washington over the bipartisan Housing Act.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman&#8217;s Brent Nelsen speaks to Justin Dougherty of FOX Carolina News to help viewers understand the impact of an end to the fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. He also addresses the gridlock in Washington over the Housing Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42657","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=42657"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42666,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42657\/revisions\/42666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}