{"id":3915,"date":"2021-12-03T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2021-12-13T06:02:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T12:02:49","slug":"3915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/12\/03\/3915\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/iran-sewerage-manhole-thieves\/31592861.html\">\u201cIran&#8217;s Massive Sewer Project Hit By Unexpected Hurdle &#8212; Manhole Thieves,\u201d<\/a> RFE\/RL, Radio Farda, December 03, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/women.ncr-iran.org\/2021\/12\/03\/iranian-teachers-nationwide-protests\">\u201cIranian teachers\u2019 nationwide protests, women actively present,\u201d<\/a> NCRI Women\u2019s Committee, December 3, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]here are no Iranian embassies in Bhutan, Cambodia, East Timor, Laos, Maldives, Macao, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal and Singapore, \u2026\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/12\/03\/iran-foreign-policy-asia-pivot-china-india\">\u201cIran\u2019s New Asia-Focused Foreign Policy Is a Fantasy,\u201d<\/a> Kourosh Ziabari, Foreign Policy, December 3, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>So rare, and do not expect this ruling to multiply.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2021\/december\/iran-christian-house-churches-supreme-court-national-securi.html\">\u201cIran\u2019s House Churches Are Not Illegal, Says Supreme Court Justice,\u201d<\/a> Jason Casper, Christianity Today, December 3, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>What a contrast.\u00a0 Take it or leave it, versus non-substantive.\u00a0 As details of the talks emerge, I think we can trust the Western negotiators&#8217; version.\u00a0 See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/12\/3\/iran-chief-negotiator-says-nuclear-proposals-cannot-be-rejected\">\u201cIran chief negotiator says nuclear proposals \u2018cannot be rejected\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, December 3, 2021.\u00a0 And see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/iran-nuclear-proposals-vienna-talks-60d23f5b-b52a-42b4-8f9b-cc53c80dd17e.html\">\u201cWestern negotiators tell Iran new nuclear proposals are &#8220;not serious,&#8221;&#8221;<\/a> Barak Ravid, Axios, December 3, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran&#8217;s Massive Sewer Project Hit By Unexpected Hurdle &#8212; Manhole Thieves,\u201d RFE\/RL, Radio Farda, December 03, 2021. \u201cIranian teachers\u2019 nationwide protests, women actively present,\u201d NCRI Women\u2019s Committee, December 3, 2021. \u201c[T]here are no Iranian embassies in Bhutan, Cambodia, East Timor, Laos, Maldives, Macao, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal and Singapore, \u2026\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cIran\u2019s New Asia-Focused Foreign Policy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/12\/03\/3915\/\" 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3915","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\/3915","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=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3917,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions\/3917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}