{"id":3274,"date":"2021-06-12T09:47:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2021-06-15T16:01:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T21:01:50","slug":"3274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/06\/12\/3274\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So disappointing.\u00a0 The U.S. has allowed Iran to save face at the UN, and didn\u2019t get anything in return\u2014no hostages, no nothing.\u00a0 It is time for Joe Biden to speak about what it is that Iran is giving as the U.S. is giving.\u00a0 \u201cIran regained its vote in the UN General Assembly on Friday after the United States enabled Tehran to use funds frozen in South Korea to pay some $16 million it owed to the world body. Iran lost its vote in the 193-member General Assembly in January because it was more than two years in arrears. It owed a total of more than $65 million, but paid the minimum amount needed to regain its vote.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/iran-regains-voting-rights-in-un-general-assembly-after-paying-debt-670800\">\u201cIran regains UN vote after US enables UN payment,\u201d<\/a> Jerusalem Post, Reuters, June\u00a0 12, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtvbam.com\/2021\/06\/12\/irans-ex-parliament-speaker-demands-explanation-for-vote-disqualification\">\u201cIran\u2019s ex-parliament speaker demands explanation for vote disqualification,\u201d<\/a> WTVBAM, June 12, 2021.\u00a0 But Larijani won&#8217;t get an answer, and won&#8217;t get anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So disappointing.\u00a0 The U.S. has allowed Iran to save face at the UN, and didn\u2019t get anything in return\u2014no hostages, no nothing.\u00a0 It is time for Joe Biden to speak about what it is that Iran is giving as the U.S. is giving.\u00a0 \u201cIran regained its vote in the UN General Assembly on Friday after &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/06\/12\/3274\/\" 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-3274","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\/3274","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=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3289,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}