{"id":2908,"date":"2021-04-10T14:16:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T19:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2021-04-12T07:55:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T12:55:30","slug":"2908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/04\/10\/2908\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurasiareview.com\/10042021-are-irans-gold-mines-under-chinas-control-oped\">\u201cAre Iran\u2019s Gold Mines Under China\u2019s Control? \u2013 OpEd,\u201d<\/a> Iran News Wire, April 10, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/1101893175\/Tehrans-famous-bazaar-to-shut-due-to-Covid\">\u201cTehran&#8217;s famous bazaar to shut due to Covid,\u201d<\/a> MENAFN, April 10, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The NYT Editorial Board is wrong, by definition.\u00a0 The sanctions were designed to get Iran back to the negotiating table.\u00a0 And they have.\u00a0 Not because Biden is in office (otherwise would have happened in January, just like releasing the hostages was put off until Reagan\u2019s inauguration) but because the economic pressure and the lack of funding for the terror\/Shia Arc pressure).\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/10\/opinion\/sunday\/iran-nuclear-deal-sanctions.html\">\u201c\u2018Maximum Pressure\u2019 on Iran Has Failed,\u201d<\/a> Editorial Board, Opinion, New York Times, April 10, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/official-tells-iranian-state-tv-that-accident-strikes-electrical-distribution-grid-of-irans-natanz-nuclear-facility\/2021\/04\/11\/9700adfe-9a7f-11eb-8f0a-3384cf4fb399_story.html\">\u201cOfficial tells Iranian state TV that \u2018accident\u2019 strikes electrical distribution grid of Iran\u2019s Natanz nuclear facility,\u201d<\/a> AP, April 10, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Reassuring news\u2014the FM spokesman said \u201c\u201cextensive investigations\u201d suggest that the Iranian-flagged oil tanker has not committed any violations.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurasiareview.com\/10042021-efforts-underway-for-release-of-iranian-tanker-seized-by-indonesia\">\u201cEfforts Underway For Release Of Iranian Tanker Seized By Indonesia,\u201d<\/a> Tasnim, April 10, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAre Iran\u2019s Gold Mines Under China\u2019s Control? \u2013 OpEd,\u201d Iran News Wire, April 10, 2021. \u201cTehran&#8217;s famous bazaar to shut due to Covid,\u201d MENAFN, April 10, 2021. The NYT Editorial Board is wrong, by definition.\u00a0 The sanctions were designed to get Iran back to the negotiating table.\u00a0 And they have.\u00a0 Not because Biden is in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/04\/10\/2908\/\" 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-2908","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\/2908","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=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}