{"id":2247,"date":"2020-12-16T04:11:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T10:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2020-12-16T21:39:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T03:39:05","slug":"2247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/12\/16\/2247\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No longer in a hospital bed, at least for the moment.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/iran-khamenei\/irans-supreme-leader-reappears-in-public-hits-out-at-u-s-idUSKBN28Q11W\">\u201cIran&#8217;s Supreme Leader reappears in public, hits out at U.S.,\u201d<\/a> Parisa Hafezi, Reuters, December 16, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>So, now he will be in public.\u00a0 And an interesting choice of event\u2014\u201cThe media reports said Khamenei would meet organizers of events to mark the first anniversary of the killing of Iran&#8217;s top commander Qassem Soleimani in a US drone attack in Iraq.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/irans-supreme-leader-to-hold-first-function-since-health-rumors-report-652285\">\u201cIran&#8217;s Supreme Leader to hold first function since health rumors \u2013 report,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Another enabler of Iran, which causes one to not act normal.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/us-refuses-to-share-intel-with-qatar-due-to-its-support-for-iran-652351\">\u201cUS refuses to share intel with Qatar due to its support for Iran,\u201d<\/a> Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1778396\/world\">\u201cMPs urge UK to designate Iran\u2019s IRGC a terrorist group,\u201d<\/a> Arab News, December 16, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden is very patient; it takes a lot to get the Swedes to complain publicly.\u00a0 And this is another person snatched from Turkey.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macaubusiness.com\/sweden-says-iran-has-denied-access-to-detained-dissident\">\u201cSweden says Iran has denied access to detained dissident,\u201d<\/a> AFP, December 16, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/usa\/us-blacklists-chinese-uae-based-companies-over-sale-iranian-petrochemicals\">\u201cUS Blacklists Chinese, UAE-based Companies Over Sale of Iranian Petrochemicals,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, VOA, December 16, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No longer in a hospital bed, at least for the moment.\u00a0 \u201cIran&#8217;s Supreme Leader reappears in public, hits out at U.S.,\u201d Parisa Hafezi, Reuters, December 16, 2020. So, now he will be in public.\u00a0 And an interesting choice of event\u2014\u201cThe media reports said Khamenei would meet organizers of events to mark the first anniversary of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/12\/16\/2247\/\" 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-2247","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\/2247","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=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}