{"id":3617,"date":"2021-08-23T07:15:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T12:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2021-09-01T07:31:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T12:31:31","slug":"3617","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/08\/23\/3617\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Very, very rare photographs.\u00a0 But the stories have existed for years\u2014Evin is where a person doesn\u2019t want to do, and so many there are held without due process and as hostages.\u00a0 \u201cLeaked footage shows grim conditions in Iran\u2019s Evin prison,\u201d<\/a> Technology, August 23, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran resumes fuel exports to Afghanistan after Taliban request, union says,\u201d<\/a> Yahoo, August 23, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow Iran Helped Houthis Expand Their Reach,\u201d<\/a> Thomas Juneau, op-ed, War on the Rocks, August 23, 2021.<\/p>\n

Why the wait?\u00a0 It\u2019s been over a year.\u00a0 \u201cIran, reportedly suffering its worst coronavirus wave yet, is negotiating with one or two European countries to purchase Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus vaccines, according to Alireza Raisi, spokesman for the National Headquarters for Coronavirus Control.\u201d\u00a0 Only with the Leader\u2019s permission, so they must be desperate with the highest daily totals from Covid yet recorded.\u00a0 See \u201cIran ‘moves for western vaccines’ with country mired in worst virus wave yet,\u201d<\/a> bne IntelIiNews August 23, 2021.\u00a0 \u201cThe newly elected hardline government led by President Ebrahim Raisi is under heavy pressure to broaden its sourcing of vaccines as the country is struggling with its fifth and most deadly wave of COVID-19. It is dominated by the Delta virus variant said by some experts to be three or four times as infectious as previous variants experienced in Iran.\u00a0 Officials have attempted to rely on predominantly Chinese vaccines against coronavirus with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei having issued a warning that vaccines from the US and UK could be used in a conspiracy against Iran. But the supply of vaccines is by some accounts close to running out\u2014with severe delays hitting deliveries of Chinese and Russian vaccines and the production of Iran\u2019s domestically developed vaccine, COVIran Barekat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Great reporting\u2014The map overwhelmingly shows why Lebanon and Israel, let alone the people of Syria, can see how Iran\u2019s IRGC is only growing in Syria.\u00a0 \u201cIn the two years since Russia, the US, Jordan and Israel signed a 2018 agreement promising to lessen Iran’s presence on the Syrian Golan heights, the Iranian military presence in southern Syria has more than doubled, and it is deployed in preparation for a future confrontation with Israel.\u00a0 The report claims that from 2018-2021, the number of military bases and outposts of pro-Iranian militias and Hezbollah in southern Syria has increased from 40 to 88. It also reveals that bases of the Syrian Army, particularly the 90th Brigade deployed from southern Syrian to Damascus, serve as logistics backing for the pro-Iranian militias in the country.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cIran has doubled forces on Israeli border since 2018, report claims,\u201d<\/a> Neta Bar, Israel Hayom, August 23, 2021.<\/p>\n

Good article detailing corruption.\u00a0 \u201cIllicit Oil Exports Cost Iran Billions In Lost Revenues,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, August 23, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran official on trial linked to terrorist who murdered Jews and Kurds,\u201d<\/a> Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, August 23, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe International Criminal Police Organization issued an arrest warrant for Fallahian due to his role in the bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia, Iran and China to hold joint drills in Gulf \u2013RIA,\u201d<\/a> WHBL, August 23, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very, very rare photographs.\u00a0 But the stories have existed for years\u2014Evin is where a person doesn\u2019t want to do, and so many there are held without due process and as hostages.\u00a0 \u201cLeaked footage shows grim conditions in Iran\u2019s Evin prison,\u201d Technology, August 23, 2021. \u201cIran resumes fuel exports to Afghanistan after Taliban request, union says,\u201d … <\/p>\n

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