{"id":3954,"date":"2022-01-03T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T15:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2022-01-07T23:18:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T05:18:28","slug":"3954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2022\/01\/03\/3954\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A busy news day with multiple entries in this blog.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/jerusalem-post-hacked-iran-generals-killing-anniversary-82047383\">\u201cYemen rebels seize UAE ship; hackers hit Israeli newspaper,\u201d<\/a> Jon Gambrell, AP, January 3, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>King Salman said, in his annual speech to the Shura Council, that \u201cTehran must warm up to its neighbours, end its support to terror groups.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/gulfnews.com\/opinion\/editorials\/iran-urged-to-change-negative-behaviour-1.84713308\">\u201cIran urged to change \u2018negative behaviour\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Gulf News, January 3, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/opinion\/editorial\/2022\/01\/03\/two-years-after-suleimanis-death-iran-fails-to-learn-its-lessons\">\u201cTwo years after Suleimani&#8217;s death, Iran fails to learn its lessons,\u201d<\/a> Editorial Opinion, The National, January 3, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Regime can learn from its own statements against the Taliban.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/south-asia\/iran-refuses-to-recognize-taliban-govt-until-it-is-inclusive\/articleshow\/88657661.cms\">\u201cIran refuses to recognize Taliban government until it is inclusive,\u201d<\/a> Times of India, January 3, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>A Canadian court has awarded C$107m (\u00a362m; $84m), plus interest, to the families of only six of the 176 people who died when their Ukraine Airlines flight was shot down by two missiles of the IRGC near Tehran in 2020.\u00a0 The 176 included 55 Canadians and 35 permanent residents of Canada, and the relatives had filed a civil suit against Iran and several of its officials.\u00a0 \u00a0See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-59863053\">\u201cCanadian families win compensation over jet downed by Iran,\u201d<\/a> BBC, January 3, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/attacks-on-u-s-allies-raise-tensions-on-anniversary-of-killing-of-irans-soleimani-11641231599\">\u201cAttacks on U.S. Allies Raise Tensions on Anniversary of Killing of Iran\u2019s Soleimani,\u201d<\/a> Jared Malsin, Wall Street Journal, January 3, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t too many years ago that these types of public pronouncements would never have been made.\u00a0 Now Iran is bold enough to allow them.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202201038619\">\u201cIran Funded Hamas Missiles With $70 Million, Haniyeh Says,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, January 3, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iranhumanrights.org\/2022\/01\/writer-in-coma-another-political-prisoner-dead-after-arbitrary-imprisonment-in-iran\">\u201cWriter in Coma, Another Political Prisoner Dead after Unjust Imprisonment in Iran,\u201d<\/a> Center for Human Rights in Iran, January 3, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/world\/article-iran-vows-revenge-for-soleimani-killing-if-trump-pompeo-not-put-on\">\u201cIran vows revenge for Soleimani killing if Trump, Pompeo not put on trial,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, January 3, 2022.\u00a0 And Iran&#8217;s President Raisi said not only a trial but execution, so it doesn&#8217;t sound like a fair trial&#8211;par for the course for the prosecutor with the 1980s death panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busy news day with multiple entries in this blog.\u00a0 \u201cYemen rebels seize UAE ship; hackers hit Israeli newspaper,\u201d Jon Gambrell, AP, January 3, 2022. King Salman said, in his annual speech to the Shura Council, that \u201cTehran must warm up to its neighbours, end its support to terror groups.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cIran urged to change &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2022\/01\/03\/3954\/\" 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-3954","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\/3954","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=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3969,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}