{"id":4146,"date":"2022-02-25T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T17:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2022-03-01T05:40:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T11:40:47","slug":"4146","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2022\/02\/25\/4146\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/world\/muddywater-irans-ministry-of-intelligence-and-security-running-malicious-cyber-campaigns-warns-us-456283\">\u201c&#8217;MuddyWater&#8217;: Iran&#8217;s Ministry of Intelligence and Security running malicious cyber campaigns, warns US,\u201d<\/a> WION, February 25, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202202254983\">\u201cWhy Iran&#8217;s Hardliners Welcome Russia&#8217;s Invasion Of Ukraine,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, February 25, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In this barely noticed article, Iran courts (often done with bribes, etc.) a small country, Trinidad and Tobago, to join its orbit.\u00a0 This is facilitated by the regime in nearby Venezuela.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/irans-president-says-country-ready-to-share-oil-gas-experience-with-tt-6.2.1460294.1e147f11aa\">\u201cIran\u2019s president says country ready to share oil, gas experience with T&amp;T,&#8221;<\/a> Guardian, February 25, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/senior-iran-cleric-demands-removal-banking-oil-sanctions-2022-02-25\">\u201cIran to enrich uranium to 20% even after nuclear deal &#8211; nuclear chief,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, February 25, 2020.\u00a0 Reuters, to its credit, does include this key point\u2014\u201cThe 2015 deal restricts the purity to which Iran can enrich uranium to 3.67%, far below the roughly 90% that is weapons-grade or the 20% Iran reached before the deal. Iran is now enriching to various levels, the highest being around 60%.\u201d\u00a0 Only 3-4% is needed for electricity production and isotopes, so clearly Iran wants to continue to work toward weapons enrichment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c&#8217;MuddyWater&#8217;: Iran&#8217;s Ministry of Intelligence and Security running malicious cyber campaigns, warns US,\u201d WION, February 25, 2022. \u201cWhy Iran&#8217;s Hardliners Welcome Russia&#8217;s Invasion Of Ukraine,\u201d Iran International, February 25, 2022. In this barely noticed article, Iran courts (often done with bribes, etc.) a small country, Trinidad and Tobago, to join its orbit.\u00a0 This is facilitated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2022\/02\/25\/4146\/\" 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-4146","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\/4146","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=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}