{"id":2508,"date":"2021-01-29T23:11:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T05:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2021-02-02T08:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T14:00:32","slug":"2508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/01\/29\/2508\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ship and crew ransom repeated.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/iran-pm-says-unfreezing-7-billion-may-help-release-of-south-korean-tanker\">\u201cIran MP Says Unfreezing $7 Billion May Help Release of South Korean Tanker,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, January 29, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0It appears that the only \u201cenvironmental pollution\u201d that is happening here is the taking hostage of people and ships.\u00a0 It is not normal for countries to take hostages and use them as pawns in international relations\u2014that is a special type of political pollution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/rob-malley-biden-iran-envoy-nuclear-deal-db76106a-4ce5-43d2-906c-48bafa7e4367.html\">\u201cBiden picks Rob Malley as envoy for Iran,\u201d<\/a> Dave Lawler and Barak Ravid, Axios, January 29, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya has long been eyed as a place to expand.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/457500\/Iran-ready-to-provide-hi-tech-expertise-to-Kenya\">\u201cIran ready to provide hi-tech expertise to Kenya,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, January 29, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United Nations human rights office on Friday condemned an alleged spree of 28 executions in Iran, including several prisoners from minority groups, and called on Tehran to halt the hanging of an ethnic Baluchi man.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-un-iran-executions-condemns\/u-n-condemns-iran-execution-spree-worried-about-minorities-idUSKBN29Y2XI?il=0\">\u201cU.N. condemns Iran execution spree, worried about minorities,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, January 29, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ship and crew ransom repeated.\u00a0 \u201cIran MP Says Unfreezing $7 Billion May Help Release of South Korean Tanker,\u201d Reuters, January 29, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0It appears that the only \u201cenvironmental pollution\u201d that is happening here is the taking hostage of people and ships.\u00a0 It is not normal for countries to take hostages and use them as pawns in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/01\/29\/2508\/\" 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-2508","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\/2508","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=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}