{"id":1873,"date":"2020-10-17T23:41:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T04:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2020-10-18T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T22:10:00","slug":"1873","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/10\/17\/1873\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 18, unfortunately the UN Security Council weapons embargo on Iran is lifted. \u00a0This means that the international community can sell weapons to Iran and it can greatly strengthen its military.\u00a0 Iran can also (legally) sell weapons to other states.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/10\/17\/conventional-arms-embargo-on-iran-set-to-end-whats-next\">\u201cConventional arms embargo on Iran set to end: What\u2019s next?,\u201d<\/a> Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera, October 17, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>This is the plane crash that never ends.\u00a0 These talks will extend over three days\u2014just how long was it since Iran shot down the Ukrainian commercial jet liner and promised to fully cooperate in the investigation?\u00a0 And to fully compensate?\u00a0 And to turn over the blackbox?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/ukraine-politics\/bloomberg-iran-ukraine-to-hold-plane-crash-talks-in-tehran.html\">\u201cBloomberg: Iran, Ukraine to hold plane crash talks in Tehran,\u201d<\/a> Bloomberg. Published Oct. 17, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Iran again claims that its missile program is lawful under self-defense and international law.\u00a0 They do not address the specific points made by the U.S. and multiple other states on the myriad of reasons this is not true.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tasnimnews.com\/en\/news\/2020\/10\/17\/2370956\/un-envoy-iran-s-missile-program-legitimate-developed-for-self-defense\">\u201cUN Envoy: Iran\u2019s Missile Program Legitimate, Developed for Self-Defense,\u201d<\/a> Tasnim News Agency, October, 17, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/10\/17\/conventional-arms-embargo-on-iran-set-to-end-whats-next\">\u201cConventional arms embargo on Iran set to end: What\u2019s next?,\u201d<\/a> Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera, October 17, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 18, unfortunately the UN Security Council weapons embargo on Iran is lifted. \u00a0This means that the international community can sell weapons to Iran and it can greatly strengthen its military.\u00a0 Iran can also (legally) sell weapons to other states.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cConventional arms embargo on Iran set to end: What\u2019s next?,\u201d Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera, October &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/10\/17\/1873\/\" 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-1873","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\/1873","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=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}