{"id":3874,"date":"2021-11-18T17:23:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T23:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2021-11-18T17:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T23:23:37","slug":"3874","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/11\/18\/3874\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2021\/11\/18\/2337662\/0\/en\/UN-Committee-Passes-Resolution-Calling-on-Iran-to-Eliminate-Religious-Discrimination.html\">\u201cUN Committee Passes Resolution Calling on Iran to Eliminate Religious Discrimination,\u201d<\/a> Globe News, November 18, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/observers-iran-backed-iraqi-shiite-militias-threaten-iraq-s-sovereignty-\/6318153.html\">\u201cObservers: Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite Militias Threaten Iraq\u2019s Sovereignty,\u201d<\/a> Dale Gavlak, VOA, November 18, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Rhetorically, why are Hezbollah in Yemen?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1970221\/saudi-arabia\">\u201cArab coalition strikes Iran Revolutionary Guard, Hezbollah experts in Yemen,\u201d<\/a> Arab News, November 18, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy negotiate with an actor who does bad deeds?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/us-says-iran-government-behind-ransomware-attacks\/articleshow\/87768054.cms\">\u201cUS says Iran government behind ransomware attacks,\u201d<\/a> AFP, November 18, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>An outstanding piece of reporting.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/p\/a-sign-that-iran-is-still-pursuing\">\u201cA Sign That Iran Is Still Pursuing Nukes,\u201d<\/a> The Dispatch, FDD, November 18, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIranian media have reported on the identity of the new head of the Islamic Republic\u2019s nuclear research institute.\u201d\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 \u201cThe name of SPND\u2019s new chief, Reza Mozaffarinia, was not trumpeted in a formal press release, but rather relayed in passing amid a story unrelated to Iran\u2019s nuclear program first detected by open-source analysts. The reason for the lackluster press is understandable. Mozaffarinia\u2019s predecessor was targeted and killed last November in what many assume to be an Israeli attempt to stymie Tehran\u2019s nuclear weapons efforts. In the years leading up to his death, Fakhrizadeh\u2019s name appeared in International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports, books, articles, and even the atomic archive that Israel exposed in 2018, all of which put Fakhrizadeh at the nexus of Iran\u2019s nuclear and military aspirations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUN Committee Passes Resolution Calling on Iran to Eliminate Religious Discrimination,\u201d Globe News, November 18, 2021. \u201cObservers: Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite Militias Threaten Iraq\u2019s Sovereignty,\u201d Dale Gavlak, VOA, November 18, 2021. Rhetorically, why are Hezbollah in Yemen?\u00a0 \u201cArab coalition strikes Iran Revolutionary Guard, Hezbollah experts in Yemen,\u201d Arab News, November 18, 2021. \u201cWhy negotiate with an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/11\/18\/3874\/\" 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-3874","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\/3874","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=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3875,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}