{"id":81199,"date":"2026-03-09T09:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81199"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:07:35","slug":"iran-defiant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/iran-defiant\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Defiant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-ei0myh evys1bk0\">Markets\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/09\/business\/stocks-iran-oil.html\">in Asia and Europe<\/a> tumbled on Monday, and U.S. futures were down, as a spike in oil prices reflected global fears of a prolonged U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Meanwhile, Iran projected defiance by naming a son of its slain supreme leader as his successor.\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/08\/business\/energy-environment\/oil-100-dollars-barrel.html\">Oil prices briefly surged<\/a>\u00a0early Monday to almost $120 per barrel, their highest level since the Covid pandemic, as President Trump\u2019s plans for the next steps in the war, let alone its endgame, remained unclear, and Iran showed no sign of bowing to his demand for unconditional surrender.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-ei0myh evys1bk0\">Iran\u2019s new supreme leader,\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/08\/world\/middleeast\/mojtaba-khamenei-iran-leader.html\">Mojtaba Khamenei<\/a>, was appointed by senior clerics on Monday, days after Mr. Trump declared that he was an \u201cunacceptable choice\u201d and amid Israeli threats to kill Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\u2019s successor. Iran\u2019s military and hard-line political forces\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/03\/09\/world\/iran-war-trump-israel-lebanon#iran-mojtaba-khamenei-supreme-leader-reactions\">trumpeted the selection<\/a>, but in Tehran, opponents of the government were heard\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/03\/09\/world\/iran-war-trump-israel-lebanon#iran-mojtaba-khamenei-supreme-leader-reactions\">chanting \u201cDeath to Mojtaba\u201d from their windows<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 reflecting widespread if muted dissent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1773047255\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Iran Defiant\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: Markets\u00a0in Asia and Europe tumbled on Monday, and U.S. futures were down, as a spike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}