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\u201cIran\u2019s Pension Funds Crisis,\u201d<\/a> Iran News Update, 11-22-23.\u00a0 The mismanagement and raiding goes on and on, year after year.<\/p>\n

\u201cU.S. Warns Iran Is Weighing Sending Short-Range Missiles to Russia,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 11-22-23.<\/p>\n

\u201cAttacks on American Troops increase; Iran responsible says US officials,\u201d<\/a> KCBY, 11-22-23.<\/p>\n

This seems to be the main quote the AP wants us to read:\u00a0 \u201cThe city\u2019s coastal promenade that once bustled with cafes and coffee shops was gone. Instead, there was rubble and a single lifeguard hut.\u201d\u00a0 Instead, we need to remember that the AP leans toward Hamas and those living in Gaza repeatedly, and the AP\u2019s choosing sides for weeks (siding with Hamas and the Gaza Health Ministry) in the question of whether Shifa was being used for human shield cover (in violation of international law).\u00a0 Despite years of IDF reporting more accurately the situation inside of the Strip, AP again sided against Israel and criticized its attacks around the hospital proper.\u00a0 You can read it in the tone of this story, too.\u00a0 We should all pause to remember that an essential element of helping the Palestinians and moving forward in the Middle East is accurate and balanced reporting.\u00a0 See \u201cIsrael unveils what it claims is a major Hamas hideout beneath Gaza City\u2019s Shifa Hospital,\u201d<\/a> AP, 11-22-23.\u00a0 In this story, the AP is finally forced to admit there were tunnels and bunkers under the hospital.\u00a0 I wonder how they would have reported the situation if they were present when Hamas was working there?\u00a0 Maybe they would have said the facilities were self-defense works (they took a long time to make BTW, and with monies from ?).<\/p>\n

\u201cMeet the secret IRGC entity purging university professors in Iran,\u201d<\/a> Iran Source, 11-22-23.\u00a0 For college profs like me, this comes close to home.\u00a0 We appreciate the freedoms of religion, speech, and association offered by the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cIAEA head says the barring of several nuclear inspectors by Iran is a \u2018serious blow\u2019 to monitoring,\u201d<\/a> AP, 11-22-23.<\/p>\n

\u201cUS fighter jets strike Iran-backed targets in Iraq after repeated attacks on US bases,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 11-22-23.\u00a0 \u201cUS officials say their forces have been attacked approximately 66 times since October 17 as a result of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza\u201432 times in Iraq and 34 times in Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIran\u2019s barring of inspectors is serious blow to IAEA\u2019s work, Grossi says,\u201d<\/a> WHBL, 11-22-23.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrypto Giant Under US Fire For Iran Sanctions Breach, Terror Funding,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 11-22-23.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s about time this was addressed.\u00a0 A major route for illicit monies to terror and criminal states.\u00a0 \u201cBinance, the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been implicated in allegations of violating Iran sanctions and terrorism funding by the US Treasury. In a historic move described as \u201cthe new era in crypto crackdown,\u201d the US Department of Justice, Treasury, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have imposed a record $4.4 billion fine on Binance on allegations that it enabled the laundering of substantial sums of illicit money worldwide. \u2026 Crypto wallets at Binance were found to interact with bitcoin wallets associated with groups designated as terrorist organizations by the US and several other countries, including the Islamic State and al-Qaeda as well as the armed wing of Iran-backed Hamas, and another Iran-funded militia the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the US said. The global trading platform, which accounts for about half of all crypto activity, is charged with facilitating money laundering, aiding terrorist networks like Hamas, and violating sanctions on countries such as Cuba, Iran, Russia, Syria, as well as playing a role in human and narcotics trafficking. The indictment accused Binance of conducting over $1 billion in transactions with sanctioned countries and criminal actors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUS hits Iran-backed militants with 4th round of airstrikes,\u201d<\/a> ABC, 11-22-23.<\/p>\n

Latest official Iranian line on Israel\u2019s existence.\u00a0 Quote of the Day:\u00a0 “Without a doubt, the past six weeks of heroic resistance have proven that time is not on the side of the artificial Israeli entity.”\u00a0 Iran’s FM Hussein Amir Abdollahian.\u00a0 See \u201cIran’s Foreign Ministry Hussein Amir Abdollahian visits Lebanon to coordinate regional proxies’ effort,\u201d<\/a> I24, 11-22-23.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran Update,\u201d<\/a> CriticalThreats.org, 11-22-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIran\u2019s Pension Funds Crisis,\u201d Iran News Update, 11-22-23.\u00a0 The mismanagement and raiding goes on and on, year after year. \u201cU.S. Warns Iran Is Weighing Sending Short-Range Missiles to Russia,\u201d WSJ, 11-22-23. \u201cAttacks on American Troops increase; Iran responsible says US officials,\u201d KCBY, 11-22-23. This seems to be the main quote the AP wants us to … <\/p>\n

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