{"id":3956,"date":"2022-01-05T14:35:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T20:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2022-01-10T21:12:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T03:12:30","slug":"3956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2022\/01\/05\/3956\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting piece demonstrating that Iran was the impetus for creating SOCOM\u2019s creation.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-special-operations-commands-first-combat-test-was-against-iran-2022-1\">\u201cA 1980s showdown with Iran was US Special Operations Command&#8217;s first test in combat,\u201d<\/a> Stavros Atlamazoglou, Business Insider, January 5, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The 127 were not named.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/iran-says-it-seeks-to-prosecute-127-people-abroad-over-soleimani-killing\">\u201cIran says it seeks to prosecute 127 people abroad over Soleimani killing,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, January 5, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/05\/politics\/green-village-attack-us-coalition-forces-iranian-militias\/index.html\">\u201cIraqi and Syrian bases holding US troops attacked, but no American forces were killed,\u201d<\/a> Barbara Starr and Devan Cole, CNN, January 5, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>This article highlights the hypocrisy central to the Regime\u2019s staying in power.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202201052630\">\u201cFather And Daughter: Controversy On Soleimani\u2019s Death Anniversary,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, January 5, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iran-covid-19-death-toll-exceeds-495300\">\u201cIran: COVID-19 Death Toll Exceeds 495,300,&#8221;<\/a> NCRI, January 5, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCSW welcomes the news that Pastor Matthias Haghnejad and the Christians sentenced alongside him have been able to return home after spending nearly three years in prison,\u201d CSW\u2019s President and Founder Mervyn Thomas said. \u201cHowever, they are still facing unfounded and excessive charges simply for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief. They have committed no crimes, and we continue to call for their exoneration and to urge the Iranian authorities to end use of national security-related charges against members of the Christian community who are peaceably exercising practicing their faith,\u201d Thomas concluded.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-691567\">\u201cNine Iranian Christians released from jail,\u201d<\/a> Ben Zion Gad, Jerusalem Post, January 5, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting piece demonstrating that Iran was the impetus for creating SOCOM\u2019s creation.\u00a0 \u201cA 1980s showdown with Iran was US Special Operations Command&#8217;s first test in combat,\u201d Stavros Atlamazoglou, Business Insider, January 5, 2022. The 127 were not named.\u00a0 \u201cIran says it seeks to prosecute 127 people abroad over Soleimani killing,\u201d Times of Israel, January 5, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2022\/01\/05\/3956\/\" 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-3956","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\/3956","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=3956"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}