{"id":1676,"date":"2020-09-15T23:03:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T04:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2020-10-14T23:45:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T04:45:39","slug":"1676","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/09\/15\/1676\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Regime, with the economy in deep trouble, will have to talk to the U.S. administration.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/09\/15\/iran-negotiations-deal-trump-biden-talks\">\u201cFor Iran, Negotiations Aren\u2019t Optional,\u201d<\/a> Ariane Tabatabai and Henry Rome, Foreign Policy, September 15, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/09\/iran-gov-distances-execution-wrestler-afkari-200915134052973.html\">\u201cIran: Gov&#8217;t distances itself from execution of wrestler Afkari,\u201d<\/a> Amnesty International, September 15, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>A group of independent United Nations human rights experts strongly condemned the execution of Navid Afkari in an Iranian prison on Saturday, following the champion wrestler&#8217;s controversial allegations of killing a security guard during anti-Islamic Republic protests in 2018.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.radiofarda.com\/a\/un-experts-disturbed-by-navid-afkari-s-execution-in-iran\/30840446.html\">\u201cUN Experts Disturbed by Navid Afkari&#8217;s Execution in Iran,\u201d<\/a> Radio Farda, September 15, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ifpnews.com\/iran-must-praise-kuwait-saudi-for-rejecting-peace-with-israel\">\u201c\u2018Iran Must Praise Kuwait, Saudi for Rejecting Peace with Israel\u2019,\u201d<\/a> IFP, September 15, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing infrastructure and transport links.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/ifpnews.com\/iran-azerbaijan-republic-to-boost-transportation-rail-cooperation\">\u201cIran, Azerbaijan to Boost Transportation, Rail Cooperation,\u201d<\/a> IFP, September 15, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran reported 156 deaths Monday from the virus, the highest single-day figure since Aug. 18, when 168 deaths were reported.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/latest-on-coronavirus-outbreak\/covid-19-cases-deaths-see-fresh-spike-in-iran\/1974334\">\u201cCOVID-19 cases, deaths see fresh spike in Iran,\u201d<\/a> Syed Zafar Mehdi, AA, September 15, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Regime, with the economy in deep trouble, will have to talk to the U.S. administration.\u00a0 See \u201cFor Iran, Negotiations Aren\u2019t Optional,\u201d Ariane Tabatabai and Henry Rome, Foreign Policy, September 15, 2020. \u201cIran: Gov&#8217;t distances itself from execution of wrestler Afkari,\u201d Amnesty International, September 15, 2020. A group of independent United Nations human rights experts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/09\/15\/1676\/\" 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-1676","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\/1676","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=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}