{"id":3350,"date":"2021-06-26T12:19:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2021-06-30T01:02:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T06:02:45","slug":"3350","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/06\/26\/3350\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe, say it ain\u2019t so!\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t make sense to not sanction the one person most responsible for the suffering in\/from Iran.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/biden-admin-weighs-lifting-sanctions-iran-s-supreme-leader-ayatollah-n1272232\">\u201cBiden admin weighs lifting sanctions on Iran&#8217;s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,\u201d<\/a> Dan De Luce, NBC, June 26, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Iran wants Lebanon to be dependent on Iran, and wants Iran to remain in a precarious state.\u00a0 That, of course, is not good government nor good for the region.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/462462\/Iran-warns-U-S-diplomat-over-meddlesome-remarks\">\u201cIran warns U.S. diplomat over meddlesome remarks,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, June 26, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/iran-says-it-wont-negotiate-forever-but-believes-nuclear-deal-can-be-saved\">\u201cIran says it won\u2019t negotiate forever, but believes nuclear deal can be saved,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, June 26, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Notice that by accident or on purpose, the Ministry of Tourism listed first the most important country in the world at present to Iran\u2014China.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/462442\/Iran-targets-30-countries-to-boost-inbound-tourist\">\u201cIran targets 30 countries to boost inbound tourism,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, June 26, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Two problems.\u00a0 Iran has a poor record with regard to how returning citizens are treated, and second Iran has a poor record regarding confiscation of assets.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/iranintl.com\/en\/iran\/raisis-call-iranian-expats-return-home-met-skepticism\">\u201cRaisis\u2019 Call to Iranian Expats to Return Home Met with Skepticism,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, June 26, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>As long at the IRGC can control and benefit financially.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/iran-counts-30-crypto-mining-farms-licensed-to-mint-digital-currencies\">\u201cIran Counts 30 Crypto Mining Farms Licensed to Mint Digital Currencies,\u201d<\/a> Lubomir Tassev, Bitcoin.com, June 26, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe, say it ain\u2019t so!\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t make sense to not sanction the one person most responsible for the suffering in\/from Iran.\u00a0 \u201cBiden admin weighs lifting sanctions on Iran&#8217;s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,\u201d Dan De Luce, NBC, June 26, 2021. Iran wants Lebanon to be dependent on Iran, and wants Iran to remain in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/06\/26\/3350\/\" 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-3350","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\/3350","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=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}