{"id":5252,"date":"2023-11-23T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2023-11-28T00:54:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T06:54:39","slug":"5252","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/11\/23\/5252\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasiareview.com\/23112023-iran-security-forces-violently-repress-anniversary-protest-says-hrw\">\u201cIran: Security Forces Violently Repress Anniversary Protest, Says HRW,\u201d<\/a> Eurasia Review, 11-23-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrons.com\/news\/iran-top-diplomat-meets-hezbollah-chief-in-lebanon-864e69d6\">\u201cLebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah Intensifies Attacks On Israel,\u201d<\/a> AFP, 11-23-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-67512588\">\u201cIran secretly executes man over 2022 anti-government protests \u2013 sources,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 11-23-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/in-lebanon-iran-fm-meets-with-hezbollah-chief-and-hamas-and-islamic-jihad-officials\">\u201cIn Lebanon, Iran FM meets with Hezbollah chief and Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 11-23-23.\u00a0 Now we now Iran\u2019s current strategy\u2014a permanent ceasefire to protect Hamas\u2014which Israel won\u2019t agree to.\u00a0 \u201cIn second visit since Oct.7, Amir-Abdollahian meets with leaders of three terror groups backed by Tehran, threatens conflict will expand if Gaza war resumes after lull.\u201d &#8230;\u00a0\u201cIran is the main state sponsor of the three terror groups, among others, and has been providing them with financial and military aid over the years in its declared effort to annihilate Israel.\u201d \u2026 \u201cIn an interview with the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen news channel on Wednesday, Amir-Abdollahian said that the Gaza war is likely to spread unless the truce between Israel and Hamas, which is expected to go into effect by Friday, is maintained.\u201d \u2026 The FM said, \u201cIf it does not continue\u2026 the conditions in the region will not remain the same as before the ceasefire and the scope of the war will expand,\u201d he said. The truce agreement that was finalized between Israel and Hamas on Tuesday, and approved by the Israeli cabinet early Wednesday morning, stipulates that Hamas will release 50 Israeli women and children hostages who were abducted and taken into Gaza during the terror group\u2019s October 7 terror onslaught. Some 240 hostages are being held overall. The hostages will be released in groups of 12-13 per day over four days, starting on Friday or later. In exchange, Israel has agreed to a truce for those four days, for the first time since the outbreak of the war, as well as the release of 150 teenage and female Palestinian security prisoners. The halt in fighting could be extended by one additional day for each additional group of 10 Israeli hostages freed, after which Israel\u2019s campaign to destroy Hamas in Gaza is expected to resume.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202311237742\">\u201cIran\u2019s Government Plans To Increase Taxes Amid Economic Crisis,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 11-23-23.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is millions Iran sends Hamas.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/journalrecord.com\/2023\/11\/us-targets-hamas-sanctions-on-money-transfers-from-iran\">\u201cUS targets Hamas sanctions on money transfers from Iran,\u201d<\/a> AP, 11-23-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran: Security Forces Violently Repress Anniversary Protest, Says HRW,\u201d Eurasia Review, 11-23-23. \u201cLebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah Intensifies Attacks On Israel,\u201d AFP, 11-23-23. \u201cIran secretly executes man over 2022 anti-government protests \u2013 sources,\u201d BBC, 11-23-23. \u201cIn Lebanon, Iran FM meets with Hezbollah chief and Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials,\u201d Times of Israel, 11-23-23.\u00a0 Now we now Iran\u2019s current &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/11\/23\/5252\/\" 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-5252","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\/5252","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=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5292,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions\/5292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}