{"id":4283,"date":"2022-12-03T10:26:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T16:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2023-03-24T09:39:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T14:39:05","slug":"4283","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2022\/12\/03\/4283\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2022\/12\/us-designates-iran-china-russia-as-countries-of-concern-over-religious-freedom\">\u201cUS designates Iran, China, Russia as countries of concern over religious freedom,\u201d<\/a> Vanguard, 12-3-22.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. seized more than a million rounds of ammunition and rocket components Iran was sending to Yemen.\u00a0 The USS Lewis hauled 50 tons of weaponry from a fishing trawler on a key maritime smuggling route used by Tehran.\u00a0 \u201cA search party that boarded during routine checks found more than a million rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, 25,000 rounds of 12.7mm ammunition, nearly 7,000 proximity fuses for rockets and over 2,100 kilograms of propellant used to launch rocket-propelled grenades.\u201d\u00a0 Tehran has for years helped to train and arm the Houthi rebel group, which controls about one third of Yemen.\u201d\u00a0 Iran denies everything.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/12\/03\/us-warship-makes-huge-arms-bust-on-iran-yemen-smuggling-route\">\u201cUS warship makes huge arms bust on Iran-Yemen smuggling route,\u201d<\/a> Nation, 12-3-22.<\/p>\n<p>Just what Iran needs.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/iranian-state-media-construction-begins-nuclear-plant-94392407\">\u201cIranian state media: Construction begins on nuclear plant,\u201d<\/a> AP, 12-3-22.<\/p>\n<p>Just what the world needs.\u00a0 And note how close Iran is.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/iran-triples-capacity-for-enriching-uranium-to-60-near-weapons-grade-iaea-says\">\u201cIran triples capacity for enriching uranium to 60%, near weapons grade, IAEA says,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 12-3-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUS designates Iran, China, Russia as countries of concern over religious freedom,\u201d Vanguard, 12-3-22. The U.S. seized more than a million rounds of ammunition and rocket components Iran was sending to Yemen.\u00a0 The USS Lewis hauled 50 tons of weaponry from a fishing trawler on a key maritime smuggling route used by Tehran.\u00a0 \u201cA search &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2022\/12\/03\/4283\/\" 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-4283","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\/4283","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=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4284,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions\/4284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}