{"id":2338,"date":"2021-01-02T17:31:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T23:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2021-01-03T21:50:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T03:50:22","slug":"2338","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/01\/02\/2338\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/trump-others-linked-to-soleimani-killing-will-not-be-safe-on-earth-iran-official-warns\">\u201cTrump, others linked to Soleimani killing \u2018will not be safe on Earth,\u2019 Iran official warns,\u201d<\/a> Dom Calicchio, Fox News, January 2, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Efficacy?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/1101372526\/Iran-talks-joint-COVID-19-vaccine-production-with-Cuba\">\u201cIran talks joint COVID-19 vaccine production with Cuba,\u201d<\/a> MENAFN, January 2, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Consider that the vaccine names Pfizer and Moderna are nowhere to be found in this article about Iran and Russia providing for their citizens.\u00a0 Then consider mismanagement and corruption, and that citizens will needlessly die.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1242017\">\u201cIran and Russia preparing meeting on coronavirus vaccines, envoy says,\u201d<\/a> TASS, January 2, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/big-story\/soleimani-iran-iraq-death-strategy-quds-force\">\u201cSoleimani&#8217;s shadow: How the general&#8217;s death upended Iranian strategy in Iraq,\u201d<\/a> Suadad al-Salhy, Middle East Eye, January 2, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0Best analysis I\u2019ve read about Quds in Iraq and how the removal of Soleimani has really upset the applecart of Iran\u2019s control and actions there.\u00a0 \u201cBrigadier General Esmail Qaani, the new commander of the Quds Force, Iran&#8217;s elite unit tasked with overseas operations, boasts none of the same qualities and appears uninterested in replicating them.\u00a0 In fact, despite a tumultuous year when conflict with the United States seemed a distinct possibility, Qaani has met Iraq&#8217;s Shia leaders only a handful of times. His manner, the head of a prominent Shia political party said, resembled &#8220;an official only concerned with delivering messages and instructions&#8221;.\u201d\u00a0 Iran is having to re-evaluate and retool with the loss of Soleimani, the incoming Biden administration, and splits in the PMUs.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the U.S. blamed Iran for several limpet mine attacks on oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/middle-east\/iraq-explosives-experts-working-to-defuse-limpet-mine-on-oil-tanker-20210102-p56ra8.html\">\u201cIraq explosives experts working to defuse limpet mine on oil tanker,\u201d<\/a> Sydney Morning Herald, January 2, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>While they\u2019re at it, they need to follow-through and announce the names of those who killed the nuclear scientist outside of Tehran.\u00a0 Iran said they had made arrests, but names have been announced.\u00a0 Maybe they haven\u2019t figured it out yet.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plenglish.com\/index.php?o=rn&amp;id=63210&amp;SEO=identities-of-assassins-of-iranian-general-will-be-disclosed-in-iraq\">\u201cIdentities of assassins of Iranian general will be disclosed in Iraq,\u201d<\/a> Prensa Latina, January 2, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Consider that the vaccine names Pfizer and Moderna are nowhere to be found in this article about Iran and Russia providing for their citizens.\u00a0 Then consider mismanagement and corruption, and that citizens will needlessly die.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1242017\">\u201cIran and Russia preparing meeting on coronavirus vaccines, envoy says,\u201d<\/a> TASS, January 2, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrump, others linked to Soleimani killing \u2018will not be safe on Earth,\u2019 Iran official warns,\u201d Dom Calicchio, Fox News, January 2, 2021. Efficacy?\u00a0 \u201cIran talks joint COVID-19 vaccine production with Cuba,\u201d MENAFN, January 2, 2021. 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