{"id":2173,"date":"2020-12-02T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T17:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2020-12-07T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T18:12:36","slug":"2173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/12\/02\/2173\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this turns into an important story, not yet spotlighted by the media or governments.\u00a0 I wrote a couple of days ago on this blog that Iran would probably execute the Swedish scientist in retaliation for the killing of the nuclear scientist.\u00a0 But here the Leader has made an exception, perhaps an opening.\u00a0 Iran is under much pressure because it can\u2019t explain the infiltration and escape of the Absard killers, nor protect its nuclear scientists or its IRGC kingpins.\u00a0 The Leader may be looking to see now if the West will give something in exchange.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/02\/iran-reprieves-scientist-facing-execution-for-espionage-ahmadreza-djalali\">\u201cIran reprieves scientist facing execution for espionage,\u201d<\/a> Patrick Wintour, Guardian, December 2, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/iranian-arms-fighters-bolster-maduro-government-in-venezuela-u-s-says-11606946275\">\u201cIranian Arms, Fighters Bolster Maduro Government in Venezuela, U.S. Says,\u201d<\/a> Michael Gordon and Ian Talley, Wall Street Journal, December 2, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>A very long but informative article about the reach of the Quds Force and IRGC into Iraq.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/whbl.com\/2020\/12\/02\/special-report-iran-expands-shrines-and-influence-in-iraq\">\u201cSpecial Report: Iran expands shrines and influence in Iraq,\u201d<\/a> WHBL, December 2, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/iranian-arms-fighters-bolster-maduro-government-in-venezuela-u-s-says-11606946275\">\u201cIranian Arms, Fighters Bolster Maduro Government in Venezuela, U.S. Says,\u201d<\/a> Michael Gordon and Ian Talley, Wall Street Journal, December 2, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this turns into an important story, not yet spotlighted by the media or governments.\u00a0 I wrote a couple of days ago on this blog that Iran would probably execute the Swedish scientist in retaliation for the killing of the nuclear scientist.\u00a0 But here the Leader has made an exception, perhaps an opening.\u00a0 Iran is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/12\/02\/2173\/\" 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2173","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\/2173","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=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2200,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}