{"id":5341,"date":"2023-12-11T23:11:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T05:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2024-01-05T22:31:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T04:31:15","slug":"5341","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/12\/11\/5341\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This type of news, good news, normal country news, is too few and too far beyond.\u00a0 If Iran didn\u2019t spend so much on terror and didn\u2019t mismanage its budgeted funds (let along corruption under the Regime) and didn\u2019t spend such large amounts trying to spread the Shia Crescent, then it would have funds for health and education and more bridges, etc.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azernews.az\/business\/218717.html\">\u201cNew Astarachay River bridge connecting Iran and Azerbaijan, to open soon,&#8221;<\/a> Azer News, 12-11-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/iranian-president-targeted-with-crimes-against-humanity-complaint-ahead-of-swiss-visit\">\u201cIranian president targeted with \u2018crimes against humanity\u2019 complaint ahead of Swiss visit,\u201d<\/a> AFP, 12-11-23.\u00a0\u00a0Long a complaint about this action by Raisi, a member of the \u201cDeath Committee.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cRights groups have long campaigned for justice over alleged extrajudicial executions of thousands of mainly young people across Iranian prisons within a few months in the summer of 1988, just as the war with Iraq was ending. Those killed were mainly supporters of the People\u2019s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (MEK or PMOI), a group banned in Iran that had backed Baghdad during the conflict.\u00a0 The petitioners behind Monday\u2019s complaint say they can personally identify Raisi as figuring on a commission that sent thousands of jailed opponents to their deaths during the crackdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only country in the world doing this.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/209477\/Iran-says-will-force-US-aircraft-carrier-out-of-region\">\u201cIran says will force US aircraft carrier out of region,\u201d<\/a> Mehr, 12-11-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/air-transport\/airports-networks\/iran-saudi-arabia-set-talks-restore-scheduled-flights\">\u201cIran, Saudi Arabia \u2018Set For Talks\u2019 To Restore Scheduled Flights,\u201d<\/a> Aviation Week, 12-11-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jcpa.org\/article\/irans-grand-strategy-to-destroy-israel-is-proceeding-apace\">\u201cIran\u2019s Grand Strategy to Destroy Israel Is Proceeding Apace,\u201d<\/a> Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 12-11-23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the Israel-Hamas war, Sunni and Shia armed groups find uncommon unity,\u201d NPR, 12-11-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/irannewsupdate.com\/news\/terrorism\/understanding-the-goals-of-the-iranian-regimes-global-aggression\">\u201cUnderstanding the Goals of the Iranian Regime\u2019s Global Aggression,\u201d<\/a> Iran News Update, 12-11-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This type of news, good news, normal country news, is too few and too far beyond.\u00a0 If Iran didn\u2019t spend so much on terror and didn\u2019t mismanage its budgeted funds (let along corruption under the Regime) and didn\u2019t spend such large amounts trying to spread the Shia Crescent, then it would have funds for health &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/12\/11\/5341\/\" 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-5341","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\/5341","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=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5497,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions\/5497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}