{"id":4513,"date":"2023-05-03T11:27:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T16:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2023-05-05T14:37:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T19:37:56","slug":"4513","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/05\/03\/4513\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Again we are reminded of the purpose of this blog&#8211;Iran does not act as a normal country, it is a revolutionary state, and the Regime displays with this news story that it is the only country in the world that takes \/ holds &#8220;property hostages&#8221; belonging to other countries (let alone human hostages&#8211;well, a few other countries also do that).\u00a0 See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/iran-oil-tanker-us-niovi-suez-rajan-advantage-sweet-1850398368\">\u201cIran has seized its second oil tanker in a week,\u201d<\/a> Quartz, 5-3-23.<\/p>\n<p>Brothers in arms, but Syria is dependent on the Ayatollah and the Regime.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-iran-raisi-assad-war-4b053625380914b49fe5f68a8a9514cc\">\u201cSyria and Iran sign long-term oil and trade agreements,\u201d<\/a> AP, 5-3-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iran-president-visits-syria-for-first-time-since-start-of-war\/a-65498260\">\u201cIran president visits Syria for first time since civil war,\u201d<\/a> DW, 5-3-23.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the heavy price paid by Syria\u2019s people from the crushing attacks by Iran\u2019s snipers and soldiers, this headline is sick.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/irans-president-heads-syria-first-021159002.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANZ7e2TGHq1Dp9K0r4UxK6nr3rEyIZ5V6zyDbpkT0oFmz2l2UgMNpbF2fp-9ppCEuJd9tQ8Lmn8cRAHgBdoB1nPFFnMm3oc7oAK7QGuae4nykkGtbUUuxd-v1aApSgP4XuYYWCniv5doHewC9QI2CPz3q394bFK13HjxZWegJcyw\">\u201cIran&#8217;s Raisi praises Assad &#8216;victory&#8217; on landmark Syria visit,\u201d<\/a> AFP, 5-3-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again we are reminded of the purpose of this blog&#8211;Iran does not act as a normal country, it is a revolutionary state, and the Regime displays with this news story that it is the only country in the world that takes \/ holds &#8220;property hostages&#8221; belonging to other countries (let alone human hostages&#8211;well, a few &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/05\/03\/4513\/\" 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-4513","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\/4513","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=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4521,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions\/4521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}