{"id":1331,"date":"2020-07-29T07:10:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T12:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2020-07-30T15:11:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T20:11:21","slug":"1331","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/07\/29\/1331\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the drill in Hormuz, if you step back and think about it, the situation can even be described as comical.\u00a0 Almost a dozen explosions over the past month that Iran cannot explain, and their only recourse is to tow a barge into Hormuz and shoot at a sitting duck.\u00a0 This is a very low-tech shooting range, and so unsophisticated compared to the external or internal agent(s) that have afflicted the Regime during July.\u00a0 See \u201cIran launches underground ballistic missiles during exercise,\u201d<\/a> Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell, AP, July 29, 2020.<\/p>\n

Talk about funny money.\u00a0 Well, the economics of it will eventually dry up this market except for criminal enterprises.\u00a0 \u201cPower Plants in Iran Now Authorized to Mine Bitcoin,\u201d<\/a> Kevin Helms, Bitcoin.com, July 29, 2020.<\/p>\n

Ashura yes, funerals no. \u00a0\u201cIran to Hold Religious Gatherings and Exams Despite Virus Surge,\u201d<\/a> Golnar Motevalli and Arsalan Shahla, Bloomberg, July 29, 2020.<\/p>\n

Iran has allowed one of its militias in Iraq, Harakat Hezbollah Al-Nujaba, to use Telegram to threaten the UK ambassador in Baghdad, Stephen Hickey.\u00a0 \u201cUK envoy to Iraq threatened by pro-Iran militias,\u201d<\/a> Arab News, July 29, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran records 196 more deaths from COVID-19,\u201d<\/a> Muhammet Kursun, AA, July 29, 2020.<\/p>\n

It took just over a year.\u00a0 But that is fast compared to the years that Brits, Americans, and many other persons, who have committed no crime, are being held by Iran.\u00a0 The Regime most likely traded something to Pakistan for these people.\u00a0 But it goes to show that Iran will release on \u201chumanitarian\u201d grounds if it so decides.\u00a0 See \u201cIran extradites 14 Pakistani inmates,”<\/a> Trend, July 29, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, Jean Asselborn, has written to Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister, Muhammad Javad Zarif, condemning the recent escalation of the persecution of the Baha\u2019is in Iran, the largest non-Muslim religious minority in the country. The letter is part of a new wave of support for Iran\u2019s Baha\u2019is by Members of the European Parliament (EP) as well as numerous parliamentarians and prominent figures in Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Finland and Ireland.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cForeign Minister of Luxembourg Writes to Iranian Counterpart in Wave of Support for Iran\u2019s Persecuted Baha\u2019is,\u201d<\/a> Iran Press Watch, July 29, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the drill in Hormuz, if you step back and think about it, the situation can even be described as comical.\u00a0 Almost a dozen explosions over the past month that Iran cannot explain, and their only recourse is to tow a barge into Hormuz and shoot at a sitting duck.\u00a0 This is a very low-tech … <\/p>\n

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