{"id":3520,"date":"2021-08-01T07:11:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T12:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2021-08-05T08:57:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T13:57:04","slug":"3520","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/08\/01\/3520\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

And this is AP.\u00a0 \u201cOutgoing Iran president says government not always truthful,\u201d<\/a> AP, August 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

As the inauguration of Pres. Raisi is upcoming, it is only appropriate today to put on the blog this article\u2014Force and Intimidation will be the coin of the realm.\u00a0 \u201cMiddle East Newsletter: Ship Attack Precedes Iran Inauguration,\u201d<\/a> Gwen Ackerman, Bloomberg, August 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the point.\u00a0 This article is about the UK.\u00a0 Israel and the U.S have spoken.\u00a0 Romania will soon.\u00a0 But what about Oman, where the ship was attacked?\u00a0 And what must Sultan Haitham Bin Tariq be thinking now about his neighbor?\u00a0 \u201cBritain believes Iran attacked Israeli-managed tanker off Oman,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, Financial Express, August 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

A message for Oman, and of course a message for the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAnother Iran Message for Biden,\u201d<\/a> Editorial, Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201c’Iranian regime feels it has divine intervention helping it’,\u201d<\/a> Yaakov Lappin , Israel Hayom, August 1, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0The Islamic republic is pursuing long-term nuclear goals and feels that events are generally moving in favor of its vision of the “Shiite revival,” warns Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall, an expert on Iranian strategic issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cReport: Iran building new uranium enrichment facility in Natanz,\u201d<\/a> Dan Arkin, Israel Defense, August 1, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cArtificial intelligence and machine learning enable the tracking of what is being done at the nuclear sites in Iran, even underground.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLebanon is sliding back to the Stone Age, and Iran couldn\u2019t be happier about it,\u201d<\/a> Avi Issacharoff, op-ed, Times of Israel, August 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cIranian sharpshooter Olympian should be arrested, not given gold medal \u2013 opinion,\u201d<\/a> Abraham Cooper, Jerusalem Post, August 1, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIran’s olympian sharpshooter honed his craft during Syria\u2019s civil war \u2013 where civilians, mostly women and children, were often put in the crosshairs of live bullets. He shouldn’t be rewarded.\u201d\u00a0 Uh oh.\u00a0 \u201cLike other members of the Basij militia, a US-designated foreign terrorist group affiliated with Iran\u2019s International Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Foroughi honed his craft during Syria\u2019s civil war \u2013 where Syrian civilians, mostly women and children, were often, and intentionally, put in the crosshairs of live bullets.\u00a0 Foroughi isn\u2019t ashamed of his service to the Iranian regime, nor is anyone even trying to hide it. Iran boasted of his service on state TV where Foroughi actually declared that the greatest honor in life was to fight on behalf of Iran\u2019s genocidal, Holocaust-denying leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.\u201d\u00a0 Sounds like he was a sniper.\u00a0 He certainly shot Syrians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And this is AP.\u00a0 \u201cOutgoing Iran president says government not always truthful,\u201d AP, August 1, 2021. As the inauguration of Pres. Raisi is upcoming, it is only appropriate today to put on the blog this article\u2014Force and Intimidation will be the coin of the realm.\u00a0 \u201cMiddle East Newsletter: Ship Attack Precedes Iran Inauguration,\u201d Gwen Ackerman, … <\/p>\n

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