{"id":3228,"date":"2021-06-03T17:46:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T22:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2021-06-15T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T21:07:08","slug":"3228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/06\/03\/3228\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran is in arrears on paying dues to the UN operating budget and will lose voting rights in the 193-state General Assembly.\u00a0 I believe they owe 16M, from a posting some months ago.\u00a0 This is an indication that the U.S. sanctions do bite because Iran does not want to lose face at the UN\u2014lots of receptions and of course Nowruz.\u00a0 But now they will.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/international\/iran-central-african-republic-lose-voting-rights-in-un-general-assembly-121060300059_1.html\">\u201cIran, Central African Republic lose voting rights in UN General Assembly,\u201d<\/a> Business Standard, AP, June 3, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>It is quite rich (excuse the pun) for FM Zarif (he makes an appearance!) to claim that U.S. sanctions prevent Iran from paying its UN bill.\u00a0 Just look at how much Iran is spending to spin centrifuges!\u00a0 Or look at any other unnecessary expense that Iran is making against its neighbors or against Arab states or in Syria or in Yemen, the list is billions of dollars long.\u00a0 And Iran has money in its sovereign funds.\u00a0 And the Ayatollah is worth billions.\u00a0 They\u2019ve got the money.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/03\/world\/middleeast\/un-iran-dues-voting.html\">\u201cU.N. Suspends Iran\u2019s Voting Rights for Delinquent Dues. Iran is Furious,\u201d<\/a> Rick Gladstone and Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, June 3, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian Navy IRINS Makran supposedly headed to Venezuela is ordered back home as a result of IRIS Kharg sinking in the Gulf of Oman. She will replace Kharg in the IRIN training mission to Russia. It won\u2019t be officially confirmed as they weren\u2019t officially headed to Venezuela.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2021\/06\/03\/loss-of-iranian-navy-ship-mutes-tehrans-global-ambitions-3rd-warship-lost-since-2018\">\u201cLoss of Iranian Navy Ship Mutes Tehran\u2019s Global Ambitions,&#8221;<\/a> 3rd Warship Lost Since 2018,\u201d H.I. Sutton, USNI News, June 3, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2021-06-04\/iran-s-leading-human-rights-activist-is-boycotting-its-election\">\u201cWhy Iran\u2019s Presidential Election Is a Sham,\u201d<\/a> Eli Lake, op-ed, Bloomberg, June 3, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/us-says-expecting-sixth-further-rounds-iran-nuclear-talks-2021-06-03\">\u201cU.S. sees sixth round of Iran nuclear talks and likely more,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, June 3, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/06\/03\/menendez-graham-iran-nuclear-ambitions\">\u201cOpinion: The way forward on containing Iran\u2019s nuclear ambitions,\u201d<\/a> Bob Menendez and Lindsey Graham, op-ed, Washington Post, June 3, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran is in arrears on paying dues to the UN operating budget and will lose voting rights in the 193-state General Assembly.\u00a0 I believe they owe 16M, from a posting some months ago.\u00a0 This is an indication that the U.S. sanctions do bite because Iran does not want to lose face at the UN\u2014lots of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/06\/03\/3228\/\" 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-3228","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\/3228","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=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3291,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions\/3291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}