{"id":3734,"date":"2021-09-08T01:25:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T06:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2021-09-09T07:04:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T12:04:33","slug":"3734","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/09\/08\/3734\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since June, Iran has removed some of the cameras.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/nuclear-monitors-surveillance-gear-missing-091150312.html\">\u201cNuclear Monitors Say Surveillance Gear Missing in Iran,\u201d<\/a> Jonathan Tirone, Bloomberg, September 8, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurasiareview.com\/08092021-iran-sentences-8-to-public-flogging-for-economic-misconduct\">\u201cIran Sentences 8 To Public Flogging For \u2018Economic Misconduct\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Iran News Wire, September 8, 2021.\u00a0 \u201c\u201cThe use of cruel and inhuman punishments such as flogging, amputation, and blinding are an appalling assault on human dignity and violate the absolute prohibition on torture and other degrading treatment or punishment under international law,\u201d Amnesty\u2019s Philip Luther said.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAs a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Iran is legally obliged to forbid torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment. It\u2019s simply unacceptable that the Iranian authorities continue to allow such punishments and to justify them in the name of protecting religious morals.\u201d\u00a0 More than 100 \u201coffenses\u201d are punishable by flogging under Iranian law. The offenses include theft, assault, vandalism, defamation, and fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>5,000 mass executions in 1988\u2014Raisi responsible.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/iransource\/irans-new-president-has-blood-on-his-hands\">\u201cIran\u2019s new president has blood on his hands,\u201d<\/a> Nasser Mohajer and Kaveh Yazdani, Iran Source, September 8, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Bakhtiari must be a mouthpiece for the Regime.\u00a0 In his efforts to show how well the Regime has done, he drastically (by 3-5 x) misreports the number of Covid deaths in Iran.\u00a0 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/464846\/Iran-vs-unsanctioned-countries-who-dealt-better-with-the\">Iran vs. \u201cunsanctioned\u201d countries: who dealt better with the pandemic?,\u201d<\/a> Faranak Bakhtiari, Tehran Times, September 8, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-iran-dubai-united-arab-emirates-bahrain-fe5517a7979e037ae6e266b885cc7719\">\u201cUS Navy launches Mideast drone task force amid Iran tensions,\u201d<\/a> Jon Gambrell, AP, September 8, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since June, Iran has removed some of the cameras.\u00a0 \u201cNuclear Monitors Say Surveillance Gear Missing in Iran,\u201d Jonathan Tirone, Bloomberg, September 8, 2021. \u201cIran Sentences 8 To Public Flogging For \u2018Economic Misconduct\u2019,\u201d Iran News Wire, September 8, 2021.\u00a0 \u201c\u201cThe use of cruel and inhuman punishments such as flogging, amputation, and blinding are an appalling assault &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/09\/08\/3734\/\" 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-3734","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\/3734","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=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3746,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}