{"id":2682,"date":"2021-02-26T00:14:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2021-03-15T00:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T05:29:08","slug":"2682","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/02\/26\/2682\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally.\u00a0 The U.S. tells Iran it can\u2019t attack Erbil and fire rockets into the Baghdad Green Zone without penalty.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20210225224858-6eitm\">\u201cEXCLUSIVE-U.S. carries out airstrike against Iranian-backed militia target in Syria, officials say,\u201d<\/a> Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart, Reuters, February 26, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Classy.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iran-nuclear-iaea\/iran-threatens-to-end-deal-with-iaea-over-u-s-led-push-to-criticize-it-idUSKBN2AQ1B6?il=0\">\u201cIran threatens to end deal with IAEA over U.S.-led push to criticize it,\u201d<\/a> Francois Murphy, Reuters, February 26, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/explosion-israel-owned-cargo-ship-a63aec3ba34abb4cb0aa56a148cf45a6\">\u201cExplosion strikes Israeli-owned ship in Mideast amid tension,\u201d<\/a> Jon Gambrell and Isabel Debre, AP, February 26, 2021.\u00a0 The MV Helios Ray, a roll-on roll-off vehicle cargo ship, had just exited the Strait of Hormuz on Friday when blasts causes two holes on port side and two holes on starboard, just above the waterline.\u00a0 Sounds like limpet mines, which Iran has used in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Notice that it is Brookings itself that says this.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/order-from-chaos\/2021\/02\/26\/bidens-decision-to-strike-irans-proxies-is-a-good-start\">\u201cBiden\u2019s decision to strike Iran\u2019s proxies is a good start,\u201d<\/a> Ranj Alaaldin, Brookings, February 26, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iranhumanrights.org\/2021\/02\/non-persian-mother-languages-treated-as-national-security-threat-in-iran\">\u201cNon-Persian Mother Languages Treated as \u201cNational Security Threat\u201d in Iran,\u201d<\/a> Center for Human Rights in Iran, February 26, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally.\u00a0 The U.S. tells Iran it can\u2019t attack Erbil and fire rockets into the Baghdad Green Zone without penalty.\u00a0 \u201cEXCLUSIVE-U.S. carries out airstrike against Iranian-backed militia target in Syria, officials say,\u201d Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart, Reuters, February 26, 2021. Classy.\u00a0 \u201cIran threatens to end deal with IAEA over U.S.-led push to criticize it,\u201d Francois &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/02\/26\/2682\/\" 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-2682","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\/2682","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=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}