{"id":1382,"date":"2020-08-01T21:58:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T02:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2020-08-03T04:19:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T09:19:22","slug":"1382","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/08\/01\/1382\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the Supreme Leader \u201csaid that Iran would maintain its close alliances with militia groups in the region that it uses as proxies,\u201d so it won\u2019t negotiate, and will increase its nuclear program.\u00a0 It sound like Iran is not yet withdrawing from using bad acts (even if reduced in funding in Syria).\u00a0 The Revolution continues.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/01\/world\/asia\/iran-khamenei-us-sanctions.html\">\u201cIran Will Expand Nuclear Program and Won\u2019t Talk to U.S., Ayatollah Says,\u201d<\/a> Farnaz Fassihim New York Times, August 1, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>This story is a little bit of a mystery.\u00a0 We will learn more in following days.\u00a0 \u201cIran says it has arrested the head of a United States-based &#8220;terrorist group&#8221; accused of bombing a mosque in 2008 that killed 14 people and wounded more than 200 others in the southern city of Shiraz. The group&#8217;s &#8220;Jamshid Sharmahd, who was leading armed and sabotage operations inside Iran, is now in the powerful hands&#8221; of Iran&#8217;s security forces, state television said in a report on Saturday, citing a statement from the intelligence ministry. The statement did not elaborate on where or when the leader of the opposition royalist group known as the Kingdom Assembly of Iran, known in Farsi as Anjoman-e Padeshahi-e Iran, or Tondar (Farsi for thunder), was arrested. The group seeks to restore Iran&#8217;s monarchy.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/08\/iran-arrested-head-based-terrorist-group-200801114158415.html\">\u201cIran says it has arrested head of US-based &#8216;terrorist group&#8217;,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, August 1, 2020.\u00a0 \u00a0See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/who-is-jamshid-sharmahd-and-what-is-the-us-terror-group-thunder-637128\">\u201cWho is Jamshid Sharmahd and what is the alleged US terror group &#8216;Thunder&#8217;?,\u201d<\/a> Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post, August 1, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the Supreme Leader \u201csaid that Iran would maintain its close alliances with militia groups in the region that it uses as proxies,\u201d so it won\u2019t negotiate, and will increase its nuclear program.\u00a0 It sound like Iran is not yet withdrawing from using bad acts (even if reduced in funding in Syria).\u00a0 The Revolution continues.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/08\/01\/1382\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}