{"id":3078,"date":"2021-05-08T16:25:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T21:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2021-05-12T14:32:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:32:50","slug":"3078","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/05\/08\/3078\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most likely lack of maintenance.\u00a0 Corruption plays a part.\u00a0 And Russian involvement in the program.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/massive-fire-breaks-out-near-irans-bushehr-nuclear-power-plant-report-667581\">\u201cMassive fire breaks out near Iran&#8217;s Bushehr nuclear power plant \u2013 Watch,\u201d Jerusalem Post,\u201d<\/a> May 8, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[A] senior delegation of Israeli officials who met with their White House counterparts (and also with President Biden) concluded after their own talks that Biden would give Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief without first fixing the nuclear deal\u2019s flaws \u2013 which include, in their view, letting Iran proceed with an advanced centrifuge program in 2023 and without enhanced verification of Iran\u2019s compliance with the deal.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/iran-supreme-leader-death-judith-miller\">\u201cJudith Miller: Is Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader near death? Why the answer is supremely important,\u201d<\/a> Judith Miller, Fox, May 8, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Notice the theme of the following three stories.\u00a0 Destabilization.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t happen by accident.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-hamas-hezbollah-join-to-incite-terror-against-israel-analysis-667585\">\u201cIran, Hamas, Hezbollah join to incite terror against Israel,\u201d<\/a> Seth Frantzman, op-ed, Jerusalem Post, May 8, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.aawsat.com\/home\/article\/2961421\/morocco-says-iran-working-destabilizing-north-west-africa\">\u201cMorocco Says Iran Working on Destabilizing North, West Africa,\u201d<\/a> Asharq Al-Awsat, May 8, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/5\/8\/iran-backed-pmfs-are-destabilising-iraqs-disputed-regions\">\u201cIran-backed PMFs are destabilising Iraq\u2019s disputed regions,\u201d<\/a> Kamaran Palani, op-ed, Al Jazeera, May 8, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most likely lack of maintenance.\u00a0 Corruption plays a part.\u00a0 And Russian involvement in the program.\u00a0 \u201cMassive fire breaks out near Iran&#8217;s Bushehr nuclear power plant \u2013 Watch,\u201d Jerusalem Post,\u201d May 8, 2021. \u201c[A] senior delegation of Israeli officials who met with their White House counterparts (and also with President Biden) concluded after their own talks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/05\/08\/3078\/\" 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-3078","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\/3078","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=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3091,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}