{"id":1659,"date":"2020-09-13T22:15:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T03:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2020-09-17T00:07:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T05:07:53","slug":"1659","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/09\/13\/1659\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/09\/13\/iran-south-africa-ambassador-assassination-plot-413831\">\u201cOfficials: Iran weighs plot to kill U.S. ambassador to South Africa,\u201d<\/a> Nahal Toosi and Natasha Bertrand, Politico, September 13, 2020.\u00a0 And what a shocking headline this is, too.\u00a0 For what other country is it now publicly known that they are planning to assassinate another country&#8217;s ambassador?\u00a0 This is not what countries do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelhayom.com\/2020\/09\/13\/iran-could-target-israelis-in-bahrain-expert-warns\">\u201cIran could target Israelis in Bahrain, expert warns,\u201d<\/a> Dean Shmuel Elmas, Israel Hayom, September 13, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-09\/13\/c_139365572.htm\">\u201cIran says 1,044 centrifuges being used to enrich uranium at Fordow plant,\u201d<\/a> Xinhua, September 13, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>This enables Iran, to reinstate the JCPOA but then negotiate outside it missiles, hostages, Crescent, terrorism, etc.\u00a0 Biden\u2019s position is Obama\u2019s position, and then we\u2019re back on the \u201csanctioned\u201d (seemingly authorized) path to nuclear weapons.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/09\/13\/opinions\/smarter-way-to-be-tough-on-iran-joe-biden\/index.html\">\u201cJoe Biden: There&#8217;s a smarter way to be tough on Iran,\u201d<\/a> Joe Biden, op-ed, CNN, September 13, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOfficials: Iran weighs plot to kill U.S. ambassador to South Africa,\u201d Nahal Toosi and Natasha Bertrand, Politico, September 13, 2020.\u00a0 And what a shocking headline this is, too.\u00a0 For what other country is it now publicly known that they are planning to assassinate another country&#8217;s ambassador?\u00a0 This is not what countries do. \u201cIran could target &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/09\/13\/1659\/\" 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-1659","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\/1659","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=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}