{"id":3567,"date":"2021-08-14T06:56:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T11:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2021-08-16T06:28:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T11:28:09","slug":"3567","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/08\/14\/3567\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a subject worthy of a dissertation, to see how China and Russia have maintained distance from Iran and refused to let it join the SCO, and now to allow it in.\u00a0 Granted, for their own purposes, but a signal that the East is acting on what was called by Samuel Huntington as the Clash of Civilizations.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/moderndiplomacy.eu\/2021\/08\/14\/iran-to-join-shanghai-cooperation-organization\">\u201cIran to join Shanghai Cooperation Organization,\u201d<\/a> Modern Diplomacy, August 14, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Another story today on E versus W.\u00a0 An under-reported story, how the Supreme Leader doomed his country months ago to many deaths by illogically blocking Western vaccines.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-effects-of-khameneis-vaccine-ban-still-worsening-eight-months-later\">\u201cIran: Effects of Khamenei\u2019s Vaccine Ban Still Worsening, Eight Months Later,\u201d<\/a> Mahmoud Hakamian, NCRI, August 14, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/8\/14\/iran-announces-6-day-lockdown-amid-surge-in-covid-cases\">\u201cIran announces 6-day lockdown amid surge in COVID cases,\u201d<\/a> Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera, August 14, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a subject worthy of a dissertation, to see how China and Russia have maintained distance from Iran and refused to let it join the SCO, and now to allow it in.\u00a0 Granted, for their own purposes, but a signal that the East is acting on what was called by Samuel Huntington as the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/08\/14\/3567\/\" 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-3567","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\/3567","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=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}