{"id":534,"date":"2020-03-21T19:51:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T00:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=534"},"modified":"2020-03-23T23:13:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T04:13:39","slug":"534","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/03\/21\/534\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran said Saturday that 123 people had died on Friday.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/world\/world\/2020\/03\/576807\/iran-covid-19-deaths-surpass-1500-infections-exceed-20000\">\u201cIran Covid-19 deaths surpass 1,500, infections exceed 20,000,\u201d<\/a> New Straits Times, AFP, March 21, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Still, no quarantines.\u00a0 This will only get worse in Iran.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranfocus.com\/en\/iran-general-mainmenu-26\/34371-iran-s-regime-we-have-nothing-called-quarantine\">\u201cIran\u2019s Regime: \u201cWe Have Nothing Called Quarantine\u201d,\u201d<\/a> Pooya Stone, Iran Focus, March 21, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/middle-east\/commentary\/iranian-regimes-reckless-disregard-made-the-coronavirus-outbreak-worse\">\u201cIranian Regime\u2019s Reckless Disregard Made the Coronavirus Outbreak Worse,\u201d<\/a> James Phillips and Nicole Robinson, commentary, The Heritage Foundation, March 21, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/science-health\/coronavirus-outbreak\/iran-reports-123-coronavirus-deaths-24-hours-20000-total\">\u201cIran Reports 123 Coronavirus Deaths in 24 Hours, 20,000 Total Infections,\u201d<\/a> Edward Yeranian, VOA, March 21, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20200321-rouhani-70-of-iran-may-contract-coronavirus\">\u201cRouhani: 70% of Iran may contract coronavirus,\u201d<\/a> Middle East Monitor, March 21, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>A Mahan Air pilot, Asghar Loran, has died from coronavirus.\u00a0 He flew between Iran and China\u2014two of the leading hotspots for the outbreak of the deadly virus.\u00a0 Mahan Air is under U.S. sanctions for its smuggling weapons to Iran\u2019s proxies to Syria and across the Middle East for the Quds Force, the overseas arm of the IRGC.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Middle-East\/Pilot-from-Irans-terror-Mahan-Air-dies-from-coronavirus-621780\">\u201cPilot from Iran&#8217;s &#8216;terror&#8217; Mahan Air dies from coronavirus,\u201d<\/a> Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, March 21, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran said Saturday that 123 people had died on Friday.\u00a0 \u201cIran Covid-19 deaths surpass 1,500, infections exceed 20,000,\u201d New Straits Times, AFP, March 21, 2020. Still, no quarantines.\u00a0 This will only get worse in Iran.\u00a0 \u201cIran\u2019s Regime: \u201cWe Have Nothing Called Quarantine\u201d,\u201d Pooya Stone, Iran Focus, March 21, 2020. \u201cIranian Regime\u2019s Reckless Disregard Made the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/03\/21\/534\/\" 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-534","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\/534","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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}