{"id":3242,"date":"2021-06-06T06:59:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T11:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2021-06-07T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T04:12:00","slug":"3242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/06\/06\/3242\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mismanagement and corruption cause multiple accidents in Iran every year.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-06-06\/steel-plant-fire-in-iran-is-latest-in-spate-of-incidents\">\u201cSteel-Plant Fire in Iran Is Latest in Spate of Incidents,\u201d<\/a> Golnar Motevalli, Bloomberg, June 6, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cA blaze broke out at a steel factory in Iran\u2019s southern Kerman province Sunday morning, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said, the country\u2019s fifth reported infrastructure fire in little more than two weeks. \u2026 Iran has suffered a flurry of incidents in recent days. An oil pipeline caught fire in the southwest of the country on Thursday, a day after a blaze engulfed a refinery in southern Tehran. A week earlier, a worker was killed when an oxygen pipeline exploded at a petrochemical plant in Assalouyeh, and on May 22, three people were injured in a fire at a unit of the Abadan refinery in southwest Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>27 and counting.\u00a0 But the big news is that Israel\u2019s F-35s \u201ctake part in exercise alongside Italian, US, UK pilots in their largest, farthest-away drill yet\u201d explicitly to prepare for Iran\u2019s acts.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/in-first-israeli-f-35s-train-in-italy-with-iran-in-their-sights\">\u201cIn first, Israeli F-35s train in Italy \u2014 with Iran in their sights,\u201d<\/a> Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel, June 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/middle-east\/20210606-iran-s-presidential-race-who-is-ultra-conservative-favourite-ebrahim-raisi\">\u201cIran\u2019s Presidential Race: Who is Ultra-conservative Favourite Ebrahim Raisi,\u201d<\/a> France 24, June 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>This could be a regular crime story, but it rings a little unusual\u2014is it a wider example of organized crime from Iran?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/cities\/hyderabad\/2021\/jun\/06\/three-iran-nationals-nabbed-for-attention-diversion-cases-in-hyderabad-2312322.html\">\u201cThree Iran nationals nabbed for attention diversion cases in Hyderabad,\u201d<\/a> New Indian Express, June 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meed.com\/iran-returns-to-economic-crossroads\">\u201cIran reaches new economic turning point,\u201d<\/a> John Bambridge, Middle East Business Intelligence, June 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iranintl.com\/en\/iran\/fire-and-explosion-hit-iran-steel-mill-third-such-incident-five-days\">\u201cFire and Explosion Hit Iran Steel Mill, Third Such Incident in Five Days,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, June 6, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mismanagement and corruption cause multiple accidents in Iran every year.\u00a0 \u201cSteel-Plant Fire in Iran Is Latest in Spate of Incidents,\u201d Golnar Motevalli, Bloomberg, June 6, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cA blaze broke out at a steel factory in Iran\u2019s southern Kerman province Sunday morning, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said, the country\u2019s fifth reported infrastructure fire in little more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/06\/06\/3242\/\" 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","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\/3242","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=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3252,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/3252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}