{"id":3376,"date":"2021-07-01T08:11:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T13:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2021-07-05T17:54:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T22:54:16","slug":"3376","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/07\/01\/3376\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The way to start July!\u00a0 A \u201chard-line cleric sanctioned by the West\u201d is the country’s new judiciary chief, taking the place of Ebrahim Raisi who will be the next Iran President.\u00a0 The new chief judge (executioner, for they order those) is Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi.\u00a0 Please also notice current Pres. Rouhani\u2019s praise for this appointment.\u00a0 See \u201cIran\u2019s supreme leader appoints new hard-line judiciary chief,\u201d<\/a> Isabel Debre, AP, July 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

This is the first time I\u2019ve read in depth the effect of throwing a match has on that Iranian athlete.\u00a0 Very interesting.\u00a0 \u201c\u2018They Teach You to Hate\u2019: Iranian Athletes Share Traumatizing Experiences of Being Forced to Forfeit Matches With Israeli Opponents,\u201d<\/a> Shiryn Ghermezian, Algemeiner, July 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

If this article is accurate in saying \u201cThe 2018 accord does not specify exactly how lines from border points between two countries on the coast are to be drawn out to the limit of national exclusion zones.\u201d then Iran is correct. Under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, and general international law on the subject of treaties, if the subject of the treaty (the lines) were never drawn, then they are the foundational purpose for the treaty does not exist\u2014for example, you can\u2019t have a boundary\/border treaty between two countries unless the line has been demarcated.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve not read this treaty, and it sounds suspicious that something signed three years ago and on as important a subject as the Caspian to not have this codified before the parties signed and ratified.\u00a0 Something\u2019s up.\u00a0 \u201cIran Won\u2019t Ratify 2018 Caspian Delimitation Treaty Until Key Issue Is Clarified,\u201d<\/a> Paul Goble, op-ed, Eurasia Review, July 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cUS Airstrikes on Proxy Militias Unlikely to Deter Iran, Says Defense Think Tank,\u201d<\/a> Algemeiner, July 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran tightens control over social media, IRGC in charge of the Internet,\u201d<\/a> Iran HRM, July 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran restricts IAEA access to main enrichment plant after attack\u2013diplomats,\u201d<\/a> John Irish and Francois Murphy, Reuters, July 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cInternational Olympic Committee is coming under pressure over the alleged torture and arrest of Iranian athletes,\u201d<\/a> Don Riddell, CNN, July 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cKuwait and Iran exchange fugitive citizens wanted for financial crimes,\u201d<\/a> MEMO, July 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cInternational Olympic Committee is coming under pressure over the alleged torture and arrest of Iranian athletes,\u201d<\/a> Don Riddell, CNN, July 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cHamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah held talks this week in Beirut about last month\u2019s 11-day war with Israel. Political sources in Lebanon told The Arab Weekly that talks between Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah were part of an effort to underline the links between Hamas and the Iranian regional agenda.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cIran brings Haniyeh and Nasrallah together,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, July 1, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The way to start July!\u00a0 A \u201chard-line cleric sanctioned by the West\u201d is the country’s new judiciary chief, taking the place of Ebrahim Raisi who will be the next Iran President.\u00a0 The new chief judge (executioner, for they order those) is Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi.\u00a0 Please also notice current Pres. Rouhani\u2019s praise for this appointment.\u00a0 See … <\/p>\n

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