{"id":5041,"date":"2023-10-12T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2023-10-13T06:32:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T11:32:16","slug":"5041","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/10\/12\/5041\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFive things to know about the $6 billion Iran deal now back in spotlight,\u201d<\/a> The Hill, 10-12-23.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn first, Saudi Arabia\u2019s bin Salman speaks to Iran\u2019s Raisi about Israel-Hamas war,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 10-12-23.<\/p>\n

This news just broke.\u00a0 \u201cU.S., Qatar agree to stop Iran from tapping $6 billion fund after Hamas attack,\u201d<\/a> Washington Post, 10-12-23.\u00a0 My first thoughts–the $6 billion was an immoral act–paying blackmail to terrorists, was unsustainable (remember the $400 million per head from the Obama hostage deal?) for future hostage payments, and was unneeded–the U.S. agreed to a person to person number of prisoners with Iran (that is the maximum that should ever be agreed, a one for one swap).\u00a0 So freezing the $6B is the first step, the second is that Pres. Biden needs to declare the payment is cancelled.\u00a0 Iran’s support of the Hamas attack has cost them.<\/p>\n

\u201cHamas Invasion Rewrites Rules in Middle East,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 10-12-23.\u00a0\u00a0Another interesting quote–\u201cAt a very strategic level, Hezbollah and Iran are not very interested, as yet, to jump into this fight,\u201d said Emile Hokayem, a senior fellow for Middle East security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. \u201cThe fundamental calculus for Iran still holds: Hezbollah is such a unique and powerful instrument of its security policy that it\u2019s not going to waste it on this war. Hezbollah is to be used and deployed when the regime in Iran, its very existence, is threatened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back to talk face-to-face with Hezbollah’s Nasrallah in a soundproof room.\u00a0 \u201cIran\u2019s foreign minister to travel to Lebanon to discuss Israeli-Palestinian conflict,\u201d<\/a> Al Arabiya, 10-12-13.<\/p>\n

Is the Regime calling for military allies?\u00a0 \u201cIran calls on Islamic, Arab countries to confront Israel over its war on Hamas,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 10-12-13.<\/p>\n

This post records a quote from a portion of an article to capture what is called a shill\u2019s statement (critics delve into this further).\u00a0 And consider the logic\u2014You can\u2019t trust the U.S. if it breaks its words twice.\u00a0 Well, considering how many times Iran has broken its word in the Middle East (think solely about how it treats other countries with regard to Hormuz passage), the score of Two to Multitude seems an indicator of why countries prefer to deal with the U.S.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the article, \u201cUS reportedly persuaded Qatar to halt $6bn to Iran in breach of deal,\u201d<\/a> Guardian, 10-12-23.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cTrita Parsi, of the Washington-based Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, said re-freezing the funds would signal acceptance of this argument and warned that it could kill any future US-Iran diplomacy. \u201cThis would be the second time in five years that the US has reneged on an agreement with Iran,\u201d said Parsi. \u201cBut the last time was the Trump administration pulling out of the JCPA nuclear accords agreed with Barack Obama. This is very different \u2013 it\u2019s Biden\u2019s own deal that he made four weeks ago. \u201cEven if we accept that the JCPA is dead, it doesn\u2019t mean that some kind of agreement down the road cannot be pursued. However, reversing after four weeks on this issue makes it very difficult to have any diplomacy going forward, because the image in Iran is that the US is a serial betrayer of any agreement it signs.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cFive things to know about the $6 billion Iran deal now back in spotlight,\u201d The Hill, 10-12-23. \u201cIn first, Saudi Arabia\u2019s bin Salman speaks to Iran\u2019s Raisi about Israel-Hamas war,\u201d Times of Israel, 10-12-23. This news just broke.\u00a0 \u201cU.S., Qatar agree to stop Iran from tapping $6 billion fund after Hamas attack,\u201d Washington Post, 10-12-23.\u00a0 … <\/p>\n

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