{"id":1913,"date":"2020-10-22T22:04:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T03:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2020-11-02T00:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T06:03:10","slug":"1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/10\/22\/1913\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the only sentence in this story where Iran is mentioned.\u00a0 \u201cSudan was believed to have served as a pipeline for Iran to supply weapons to Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.\u201d\u00a0 But the entire story is a message to Iran\u2014Normal countries are at peace, and peace is a good thing.\u00a0 GDP goes up.\u00a0 Life expectancy increases.\u00a0 There are so many positive indicators for countries in the Middle East who turn from violence and terrorism and conflict.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-virus-outbreak-bahrain-africa-israel-c2a12e4a28ba5280c6e0d1fbbce030f0\">\u201cSudanese officials: Diplomatic deal with Israel is near,\u201d<\/a> Josef Federman and Samy Madgy, AP, October 22, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bourseandbazaar.com\/news-1\/2020\/10\/22\/iran-tests-home-made-air-defence-system\">\u201cIran Tests Home-Made Air Defence System,\u201d<\/a> Bourse &amp; Bazaar, AFP, October 22, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/u-s-intelligence-officials-say-iran-is-trying-to-sow-confusion-about-election\">\u201cThe video and email campaign U.S. officials say Iran used to intimidate voters,\u201d<\/a> Nick Schifrin, PBS News Hour,\u00a0October 22, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/middle-east-north-africa\/522353-treasury-sanctions-irans-ambassador-to-iraq\">\u201cTreasury sanctions Iran&#8217;s ambassador to Iraq,\u201d<\/a> Celine Castronuovo, The Hill, October 22, 2020.\u00a0 He\u2019s no ordinary ambassador..\u00a0 In fact, he looks like Qods.\u00a0 \u201cThe Treasury Department on Thursday announced that it was sanctioning Iran\u2019s ambassador to Iraq for his role in carrying out the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force\u2019s (IRGC-QF) \u201cdestabilizing foreign agenda\u201d in Iraq, according to a press release from the department. The Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets and Control said in the statement that Iraj Masjedi, a general in the Revolutionary Guard, \u201chas directed or supported groups that are responsible for attacks that have killed and wounded U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq.\u201d \u201cThe Iranian regime threatens Iraq\u2019s security and sovereignty by appointing IRGC-QF officials as ambassadors in the region to carry out their destabilizing foreign agenda,\u201d Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in the press release.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the only sentence in this story where Iran is mentioned.\u00a0 \u201cSudan was believed to have served as a pipeline for Iran to supply weapons to Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.\u201d\u00a0 But the entire story is a message to Iran\u2014Normal countries are at peace, and peace is a good thing.\u00a0 GDP goes up.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/10\/22\/1913\/\" 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-1913","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\/1913","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=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}