{"id":3613,"date":"2021-08-22T07:57:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T12:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2021-08-23T07:17:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T12:17:12","slug":"3613","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/08\/22\/3613\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/iran-urges-japan-release-billions-113905447.html\">\u201cIran urges Japan to release billions in blocked funds amid U.S. sanctions,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, August 22, 2021.\u00a0 Behind the request is a threat\u2014remember the attack on the two Japanese ships?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/english.kyodonews.net\/news\/2019\/06\/fe23a1c7a166-urgent-japanese-ship-attacked-in-strait-of-hormuz-minister-seko.html\">\u201cJapan ship attacked near Strait of Hormuz, U.S. blames Iran,\u201d<\/a> Kyodo, June 13, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know yet if it was a suicide drone or recon drone.\u00a0 Regardless, this one was deemed a threat.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/the-us-shot-down-iranian-drone-in-syria-report-677448\">\u201cThe US shot down Iranian drone in Syria \u2013 report,\u201d<\/a> Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post, August 22, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2021\/08\/22\/irans-killers-in-our-midst\">\u201cIran\u2019s Killers in Our Midst,\u201d<\/a> Roya Hakakian, The New York Review, August 22, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWhen the FBI told me I was a target, I was shocked but not surprised. Even in US suburbs, the regime\u2019s critics are not safe from its assassins.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran urges Japan to release billions in blocked funds amid U.S. sanctions,\u201d Reuters, August 22, 2021.\u00a0 Behind the request is a threat\u2014remember the attack on the two Japanese ships?\u00a0 \u201cJapan ship attacked near Strait of Hormuz, U.S. blames Iran,\u201d Kyodo, June 13, 2019. I don\u2019t know yet if it was a suicide drone or recon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/08\/22\/3613\/\" 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-3613","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\/3613","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=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}