{"id":3543,"date":"2021-08-06T18:16:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T23:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2021-09-07T00:44:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T05:44:50","slug":"3543","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/08\/06\/3543\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/06\/politics\/us-monitor-iran-spy-ships\/index.html\">\u201cUS watching as Iran quietly replaces Red Sea spy ship damaged in April attack,\u201d<\/a> Oren Liebermann, CNN, August 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clevelandjewishnews.com\/jns\/iran-working-systematically-to-build-serious-cyber-attack-capabilities\/article_3ee0880a-1bf4-511a-aec2-b1266a082e42.html\">\u201cIran \u2018working systematically to build serious cyber-attack capabilities\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Cleveland Jewish News, August 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>First, this is news\u2014\u201cMercer Street suffered an unsuccessful explosive drone attack the day before the fatal strike, on July 29, in which the drones crashed into the ocean near the ship, according to CENTCOM.\u201d\u00a0 Second, \u201cOther Iranian officials have blamed Israel this week for being the primary source of instability in the region,\u201d\u2014but we can do the math\u2014countries in the Middle East overwhelmingly say Iran is the main source of turmoil in the region, not Israel.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/flashpoints\/2021\/08\/06\/heres-why-centcom-thinks-iran-was-behind-a-fatal-drone-attack-on-a-ship-last-month\">\u201cHere\u2019s why CENTCOM thinks Iran was behind a fatal drone attack on a ship last month,\u201d<\/a> Geoff Ziezulewicz, Air Force Times, August 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theintelligencer.com\/news\/article\/G7-countries-condemn-attack-on-tanker-off-Oman-16369495.php\">\u201cUS and G7 blame Iran for deadly attack on tanker off Oman,\u201d<\/a> Lolita Baldor and Frank Jordans, Intelligencer, August 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oodaloop.com\/briefs\/2021\/08\/06\/iran-linked-hackers-expand-arsenal-with-new-android-backdoor\">\u201cIran-Linked Hackers Expand Arsenal With New Android Backdoor,\u201d<\/a> DA Loop, August 6, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUS watching as Iran quietly replaces Red Sea spy ship damaged in April attack,\u201d Oren Liebermann, CNN, August 6, 2021. \u201cIran \u2018working systematically to build serious cyber-attack capabilities\u2019,\u201d Cleveland Jewish News, August 6, 2021. First, this is news\u2014\u201cMercer Street suffered an unsuccessful explosive drone attack the day before the fatal strike, on July 29, in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/08\/06\/3543\/\" 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-3543","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\/3543","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=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3697,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions\/3697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}