{"id":4199,"date":"2022-03-15T07:42:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T12:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2022-03-16T07:17:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T12:17:24","slug":"4199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2022\/03\/15\/4199\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It boggles the mind, but I\u2019ll go a step further.\u00a0 If the U.S. is handing over millions and millions of sanctions relief, creating a short JCPOA time period, and allowing Russia and Iran to trade without sanctions penalty, I am flabbergasted.\u00a0 No terrorism relief, no regional meddling (which is so serious), what about drone attacks?\u00a0 What about missile attacks?\u00a0 And hostages?\u00a0 It appears the U.S. may be giving away the farm.\u00a0 Why is the U.S. afraid of Russia and Iran?\u00a0 And China?\u00a0 The rest of the world is in for a very rough decade.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/15\/russia-says-it-has-received-us-guarantees-over-iran-nuclear-deal\">\u201cRussia says it has received US guarantees over Iran nuclear deal,\u201d<\/a> Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera, March 15, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been preparing an army (really, an air force) of drones, for itself to threaten and increasingly use, and to give to Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, and other bad groups.\u00a0 This is an important reason that Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and others are binding themselves for security purposes to Israel.\u00a0 They are applauding this move today, and most likely knew ahead of it.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-701373\">\u201cIran blames Israel for destroying hundreds of Iranian drones \u2013 report,\u201d<\/a> Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, March 15, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s drone war (thousands being produced) made the mistake of having a number of its drones in one place at Kermanshah, and Israel took them out on behalf of several GCC countries and itself.\u00a0 The drone war is on, and Iran has responded with ballistic missiles against Erbil from where the Israel attack supposedly came.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-decimated-iranian-drone-fleet-in-february-airstrike-inside-iran-report\">\u201cIsrael decimated Iranian drone fleet in February airstrike inside Iran \u2013 report,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, March 15, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It boggles the mind, but I\u2019ll go a step further.\u00a0 If the U.S. is handing over millions and millions of sanctions relief, creating a short JCPOA time period, and allowing Russia and Iran to trade without sanctions penalty, I am flabbergasted.\u00a0 No terrorism relief, no regional meddling (which is so serious), what about drone attacks?\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2022\/03\/15\/4199\/\" 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-4199","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\/4199","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=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4213,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions\/4213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}