{"id":1450,"date":"2020-08-12T23:23:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T04:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2020-08-26T01:12:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T06:12:09","slug":"1450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/08\/12\/1450\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-08-12\/u-s-says-iranian-forces-boarded-ship-in-international-waters\">\u201cU.S. Says Iran Forces Boarded Ship in International Waters,\u201d<\/a> Sebastian Tong, Stephen Stapczynski, and Kevin Varley, Bloomberg, August 12, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>This article details some of the bad actors Iran uses to spread weapons and ideology in the Crescent.\u00a0 It is up to the UN and its interested member states to keep this list as up to date as possible.\u00a0 And enforce it.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/renew-travel-ban-iran-opinion-1524146\">\u201cRenew the Travel Ban on Iran,\u201d<\/a> Jason Brodsky, op-ed, Newsweek, August 12, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Call it a Revolution or Resistance.\u00a0 \u201cThe head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Yadallah Jawani, revealed the \u201cmain reason\u201d for the assassination of the commander of the Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani, by the U.S., claiming that \u201cit was a strategic goal through which they sought to stop the resistance in the region and change the course of developments that were in the interest of the resistance.\u201d\u201d\u00a0 See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kashmirobserver.net\/2020\/08\/12\/irans-irgc-reveals-main-reason-qassem-soleimani-was-assassinated\">\u201cIran\u2019s IRGC Reveals \u2018Main Reason\u2019 Qassem Soleimani Was Assassinated,\u201d<\/a> Kashmir Observer, August 12, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cU.S. Says Iran Forces Boarded Ship in International Waters,\u201d Sebastian Tong, Stephen Stapczynski, and Kevin Varley, Bloomberg, August 12, 2020. This article details some of the bad actors Iran uses to spread weapons and ideology in the Crescent.\u00a0 It is up to the UN and its interested member states to keep this list as up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/08\/12\/1450\/\" 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-1450","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\/1450","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=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}