{"id":5387,"date":"2023-12-21T23:22:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T05:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2023-12-29T20:01:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T02:01:17","slug":"5387","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/12\/21\/5387\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Quote of the Day:\u00a0 \u201cEsthers of the world, rise up,\u201d Hooman Khalili.\u00a0 See \u201cNew Jerusalem mural memorializes Iranian \u2018Women Memorial Warriors\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Jerusalem Post, 12-21-23.<\/p>\n

\u201cUK convicts man for spying on Iran opposition TV station in terror plot,\u201d<\/a> AFP, 12-21-23.\u00a0\u00a0London prosecutors say Chechnya-born Austrian national flew from Vienna to gather \u2018hostile reconnaissance\u2019 on building used by Persian-language channel Iran International.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPro-Iran militias launch 60 attacks on U.S. bases in Syria to avenge Gaza conflict: monitor,\u201d<\/a> Xinhua, 12-21-23.<\/p>\n

\u201cIranian reporter gets 6 months for questioning official explanation of teen\u2019s death,\u201d<\/a> AFP, 12-21-23.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Unfulfilled Commitment to Rare Disease Patients in Iran,\u201d<\/a> Iran News Update, 12-21-23.<\/p>\n

\u201cDouble-Agent Reveals IRGC Plot To Kill Iran International TV Anchors,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 12-21-23.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe IRGC was plotting to assassinate two Iran International television anchors in London in 2022 amid Iranian anti-government protests, UK\u2019s ITV has revealed. The plan was foiled because the man hired to do the job turned out to be a \u2018double-agent\u2019 working for a western intelligence agency. He would relay all information to his handler and has now shared some details with ITV. Based on irrefutable evidence \u2013seen and verified by ITV and multiple officials\u2013 the plot was commissioned and signed off by Mohammad Reza Ansari, the IRGC commander in charge of assassinations outside Iran. Ansari is the \u2018mastermind\u2019 behind failed plots to assassinate former US officials Mike Pompeo and John Bolton \u2013for which he\u2019s been sanctioned by the US treasury. He is based in Syria and is reported to have links with the family of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. According to ITV, Ansari hired and directed the hitman (Ismail) through another Assad associate, Mohammad Abd al-Razek Kanafani, requiring him first to use a car bomb and then a \u2018quiet\u2019 way to kill his targets: \u201csimply stab [them] with a kitchen knife.\u201d \u2026 Ismail, a people-smuggler turned IRGC operative and then double-agent, was promised $200,000, a new identity and safe passage to Iran via Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael-Hamas war: Will Iran escalate or manage the Gaza war? \u2013 analysis,\u201d<\/a> Jerusalem Post, 12-21-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quote of the Day:\u00a0 \u201cEsthers of the world, rise up,\u201d Hooman Khalili.\u00a0 See \u201cNew Jerusalem mural memorializes Iranian \u2018Women Memorial Warriors\u2019,\u201d Jerusalem Post, 12-21-23. \u201cUK convicts man for spying on Iran opposition TV station in terror plot,\u201d AFP, 12-21-23.\u00a0\u00a0London prosecutors say Chechnya-born Austrian national flew from Vienna to gather \u2018hostile reconnaissance\u2019 on building used by … <\/p>\n

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