{"id":1955,"date":"2020-10-29T20:23:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T01:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2020-11-08T05:22:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T11:22:02","slug":"1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/10\/29\/1955\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The arms were from the Quds Force arm of the IRGC and headed for militant groups in Yemen.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/29\/politics\/us-iran-seized-oil-weapons-sanctions\/index.html\">\u201cUS touts largest ever seizure of Iranian oil and weapons,\u201d<\/a> Nicole Gaouette and Kylie Atwood, CNN, October 29, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>415 died on Oct. 28.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mangalorean.com\/iran-records-highest-covid-19-deaths-for-2nd-consecutive-day\">\u201cIran records highest Covid-19 deaths for 2nd consecutive day,\u201d<\/a> IANS, Mangalorean, October 29, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Two quotes to consider from this story.\u00a0 \u201cMacron has defended secular values following the killing of 47-year-old schoolteacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded after showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in his classroom after allowing any students who might be offended to leave. Macron has paid tribute to Paty, saying he was &#8220;killed because he was teaching students about freedom of speech, the freedom to believe and to not believe.&#8221;\u201d\u00a0 And, \u201cKhamenei\u2019s tweets were met with criticism, including by Jonathan Greensblatt, the national director and chief executive officer of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), who said, \u201cHolocaust denialism is hate, pure &amp; simple.\u201d \u201cWhy is Khamenei allowed to consistently espouse anti-Semitism that clearly violates Twitter policy on hate speech?\u201d added Greensblatt, who is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor who escaped Nazi Germany.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/iran-s-supreme-leader-criticized-for-equating-cartoons-of-prophet-muhammad-with-holocaust-denial\/30919547.html\">\u201cIran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Criticized For Equating Cartoons Of Prophet Muhammad With Holocaust Denial,\u201d<\/a> Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE\/RL, October 29, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/iran-amends-law-to-allow-imports-to-be-funded-with-cryptocurrency\">\u201cIran Amends Law to Allow Imports to Be Funded With Cryptocurrency,\u201d<\/a> Coindesk, October 29, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Announced as planned for the port city of Jask&#8211;remember that many announced projects to not come to fruition.\u00a0 \u201cIran proposes building largest commercial port east of Strait of Hormuz,\u201d Middle East Memo, October 29, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2020\/10\/iran-warning-fighting-border-azerbaijan-armenia-nagorno.html\">\u201cIran tries to mediate cease-fire between Azerbaijan, Armenia,\u201d<\/a> Al Monitor, October 29, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arms were from the Quds Force arm of the IRGC and headed for militant groups in Yemen.\u00a0 \u201cUS touts largest ever seizure of Iranian oil and weapons,\u201d Nicole Gaouette and Kylie Atwood, CNN, October 29, 2020. 415 died on Oct. 28.\u00a0 \u201cIran records highest Covid-19 deaths for 2nd consecutive day,\u201d IANS, Mangalorean, October 29, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/10\/29\/1955\/\" 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-1955","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\/1955","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=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}