{"id":5191,"date":"2023-11-08T08:52:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T14:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2023-11-14T02:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T08:04:00","slug":"5191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/11\/08\/5191\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNormalization with Israel ‘still on the table’: Saudi minister,\u201d<\/a> Cradle, 11-8-23.\u00a0 Saudi Arabia still, ultimately, wants relations with Israel.\u00a0 This is on the Ayatollah and the IRGC\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n

Remember, Iran is allied with Russia.\u00a0 \u201cMoscow’s Support For Iran Worries Israel As Regional Tensions Escalate,\u201d<\/a> OilPrice.com, 11-8-23.<\/p>\n

\u201cU.S. Strikes Iran-Linked Facility in Syria in Round of Retaliation,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 11-8-23.<\/p>\n

\u201cUS Reaper drone shot down near Yemen by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, official says,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 11-8-23.\u00a0\u00a0The MQ-9 Reaper drone was operating in international airspace and over international waters when it was shot down. \u2026 The Iran-backed Houthi militants took responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIran is boosting its terror forces in Syria, Lebanon,\u201d<\/a> JNS, 11-8-23.\u00a0 Iran is reinforcing its forces in Quneitra and Daraa, Syria, to open a Golan front.\u00a0 “Quds Force head Esmail Ghanni is visiting and has set up a joint operations room of Iran, Hezbollah, Iran-backed militias, and Palestinian factions.\u00a0 Of note, in Gaza, the second largest terror faction after Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, has been creating difficulties for Hamas due to failed rocket launches. \u00a0Of the approx. 10,000 rockets fired at Israel, about 800 have been failed launches, and many of those were PIJ\u2019s.\u00a0 That is approaching 10%, which fall on Palestinians in Gaza.\u00a0 \u201cOne notorious example is the explosion in Gaza\u2019s Al-Ahli hospital parking lot on Oct. 17. \u00a0Predictably, there was no shortage of outlets and commentators who rushed to blame Israel without any evidence, before it emerged that PIJ fired the rocket.\u201d\u00a0 How many of those media outlets like BBC and NYT and Al Jazerra apologized for their mishandling of that story?\u00a0 Also of note, \u201cPIJ Secretary General Ziyad Nakhleh, who took over in 2018, remotely commanding the organization from Beirut and Damascus, met on Oct. 22 with Hamas\u2019s Salah al-Arouri, who is in charge of terrorism in Judea and Samaria and is deputy head of Hamas\u2019s political bureau, and with Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.\u201d\u00a0 All part of the Iranian axis.<\/p>\n

Other commentators have explained the negative effects of the belt and road project.\u00a0 Iran\u2019s Tasnim News Agency reports that\u00a0\u201cIran Says \u2018One Belt-One Road\u2019 Initiative To Spur Economic Ties With China,\u201d<\/a> Tasnim, 11-8-23.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfghan Refugees In Iran Complain Of Intensified Deportations, Harassment,\u201d<\/a> NDTV, 11-8-23.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran jails French national for 5 years, family says: \u2018Was just travelling\u2026\u2019,\u201d<\/a> AFP, 11-8-23.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cArnaud is one of at least a dozen foreign nationals held by Tehran in what activists and Western governments have described as a deliberate hostage-taking strategy aimed at extracting concessions from the West.\u201d<\/p>\n

It takes a lot of chutzpah to claim something that no one else in the world believes.\u00a0 It started openly in 2011 when Syria needed help as its civil war began.\u00a0 The IRI has given Syria billions of cash, weapons, training, you name it.\u00a0 Attacks against U.S. soldiers in Iraq began in 2003.\u00a0 \u201cIran says \u2018never been involved\u2019 in attacks on US forces in Iraq, Syria,\u201d<\/a> Rudaw, 11-8-23.<\/p>\n

\u201cTehran predicts Russia-China-Iran triangle of power \u2013 analysis,\u201d<\/a> Jerusalem Post, 11-8-23.<\/p>\n

I want to use the occasion of this article to state (has anyone else said this?) that it is not the Israel-Hamas War.\u00a0 It is instead the Hamas-Israel War.\u00a0 Hamas started the war, Israel is acting in self-defense, retaliation, and to defeat Hamas as a terror organization.\u00a0 \u201cIran’s Raisi to Attend Summit in Saudi Arabia on Sunday,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 11-8-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNormalization with Israel ‘still on the table’: Saudi minister,\u201d Cradle, 11-8-23.\u00a0 Saudi Arabia still, ultimately, wants relations with Israel.\u00a0 This is on the Ayatollah and the IRGC\u2019s mind. Remember, Iran is allied with Russia.\u00a0 \u201cMoscow’s Support For Iran Worries Israel As Regional Tensions Escalate,\u201d OilPrice.com, 11-8-23. \u201cU.S. Strikes Iran-Linked Facility in Syria in Round of … <\/p>\n

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