{"id":1571,"date":"2020-08-28T21:16:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T02:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2020-08-31T10:38:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T15:38:34","slug":"1571","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/08\/28\/1571\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/more-german-intel-confirms-iran-seeks-tech-for-weapons-of-mass-destruction-640243\">\u201cMore German intel confirms Iran seeks tech for weapons of mass destruction,\u201d<\/a> Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, August 28, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIran\u2019s regime has used German territory for surveillance and assassination operations targeting Iranian dissidents, pro-Israel advocates, and Israeli and Jewish institutions.\u201d In addition, \u201c[t]he domestic intelligence agency for the German state of Saarland added new weight to intelligence reports from its sister states that previously confirmed the Islamic Republic of Iran sought technology for weapons of mass destruction and missile carrier systems during time period of 2019. The Jerusalem Post reviewed the 112-page intelligence report, which was released last week, titled \u201cOverview of the situation\u201d that addresses security threats faced by the small West German state Saarland. \u201cIran, Pakistan and, to a lesser extent Syria, made efforts to procure goods and know-how for the further development of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems,\u201d wrote the intelligence officials for the Saarland. &#8220;Delivery system&#8221; is typically defined as the capability to launch missiles. Israel, the United States and many Gulf nations believe Iran\u2019s clerical regime seeks to develop nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wsau.com\/2020\/08\/28\/detained-colombia-businessman-was-negotiating-with-iran-for-venezuela-lawyers-say\">\u201cDetained Colombia businessman was negotiating with Iran for Venezuela, lawyers say,\u201d<\/a> Angus Berwick, WSAU, August 28, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/sadegh-zarza-i-survived-an-iranian-assassination-attempt\">\u201c\u2018I Survived an Iranian Assassination Attempt\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Nadette De Visser, Daily Beast, August 28, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMore German intel confirms Iran seeks tech for weapons of mass destruction,\u201d Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, August 28, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIran\u2019s regime has used German territory for surveillance and assassination operations targeting Iranian dissidents, pro-Israel advocates, and Israeli and Jewish institutions.\u201d In addition, \u201c[t]he domestic intelligence agency for the German state of Saarland added new weight to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/08\/28\/1571\/\" 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","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\/1571","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=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}