{"id":3589,"date":"2021-08-19T14:03:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T19:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2021-08-21T06:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T11:28:47","slug":"3589","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/08\/19\/3589\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Reuters remind its readers that the head of a terror organization is announcing basic goods being delivered to Lebanon?\u00a0 So, who controls Lebanon?\u00a0 Certainly this hasn\u2019t passed by the Reuters editors.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/8\/19\/hezbollah-says-iranian-fuel-oil-ship-to-sail-to-lebanon-in-hours\">\u201cHezbollah says Iranian fuel oil ship to sail to Lebanon in hours,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, August 19, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/08\/19\/iran-government-mismanagement-compounds-covid-19-crisis\">\u201cIran: Government Mismanagement Compounds Covid-19 Crisis,\u201d<\/a> HRW, August 19, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Iran continues to stretch out the negotiating time while working on its bomb.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/national-security-daily\/2021\/08\/19\/exclusive-bidens-iran-envoy-calls-nuclear-deals-fate-one-big-question-mark-494049\">\u201cExclusive: Biden&#8217;s Iran envoy calls nuclear deal&#8217;s fate &#8216;one big question mark&#8217;,\u201d<\/a> Alexander Ward and Quint Forgey, Politico, August 19, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Emboldens Iran.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/catastrophe-in-afghanistan-for-afghans-israel-the-region-and-for-america\">\u201cCatastrophe in Afghanistan \u2014 for Afghans, Israel, the region\u2026 and for America,\u201d<\/a> David Horovitz, Times of Israel, August 19, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAs the Taliban retake power, the imminent 20th anniversary of 9\/11 underlines the horrific consequences of the US failing to reckon with this region\u2019s darkest forces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notice in this fascinating article about oil and gas politics the power that Russia has against Iran.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/iran-huge-caspian-gas-geopolitical-230000700.html\">\u201cIran\u2019s Huge Caspian Gas Find Is A Geopolitical Gamechanger,\u201d<\/a> OilPrice.com, August 19, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Reuters remind its readers that the head of a terror organization is announcing basic goods being delivered to Lebanon?\u00a0 So, who controls Lebanon?\u00a0 Certainly this hasn\u2019t passed by the Reuters editors.\u00a0 \u201cHezbollah says Iranian fuel oil ship to sail to Lebanon in hours,\u201d Reuters, August 19, 2021. \u201cIran: Government Mismanagement Compounds Covid-19 Crisis,\u201d HRW, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/08\/19\/3589\/\" 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-3589","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\/3589","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=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}