{"id":5464,"date":"2024-01-03T10:01:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T16:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5464"},"modified":"2024-01-05T22:39:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T04:39:53","slug":"5464","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/01\/03\/5464\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More explosions rock the Middle East and Iran.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-explosion-qassem-soleimani-ceremony-85da109d\">\u201cAt Least 103 Dead in Blasts at Memorial for Killed Iranian Commander Soleimani,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 1-3-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIRNA, the state news agency, said the blasts had been caused by a pair of remote-controlled explosive devices.\u201d\u00a0 That is a mark of Al Qaida or ISIS.\u00a0 \u201cAt least 103 people were killed in explosions in Iran near a public ceremony commemorating the death of a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officer killed by an American airstrike in 2020.\u00a0 \u2026 At least 170 others were wounded by the blasts, which took place as crowds gathered near the tomb of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani \u2026 in the southeastern Iranian city of Kerman\u201d (Soleimani\u2019s hometown).<\/p>\n<p>A major terror attack against thousands of Jews in BA was prevented.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/islamic-terrorism\/article-780553\">\u201cArgentina arrests three from Lebanon, Syria in Maccabi Games terror plot,\u201d<\/a> Jerusalem Post, 1-3-24.<\/p>\n<p>They have a continuing green light from Iran.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/us-says-no-damage-reported-after-latest-houthi-attack-red-sea-2024-01-03\/?utm_source=iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=8680548_\">\u201cYemen&#8217;s Houthis say they &#8216;targeted&#8217; container ship, no damage reported,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 1-3-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cYemen&#8217;s Iran-backed Houthis said on Wednesday they had &#8220;targeted&#8221; a container ship bound for Israel, a day after the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said the militant group had fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles in the southern Red Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/4387661-us-says-isis-could-have-carried-out-iran-bombing\">\u201cUS says ISIS could have carried out Iran bombing,\u201d<\/a> The Hill, 1-3-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/us-renews-protection-for-former-secretary-of-state-aide-over-iran-threats\/7425427.html\">\u201cUS Renews Protection for Former Secretary of State, Aide Over Iran Threats,\u201d<\/a> VOA, 1-3-24.\u00a0 Iran is still trying to do violence to Pompeo and Hook.<\/p>\n<p>Norman Roule accurately predicted it was ISIS Khorasan on CNN before the group claimed responsibility.\u00a0\u00a0See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/world\/2024\/01\/03\/the-lead-iran-blasts-norman-roule-jake-tapper-live.cnn\">\u201cIran expert says U.S. needs to sharpen &#8220;red lines&#8221;,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 1-3-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More explosions rock the Middle East and Iran.\u00a0 \u201cAt Least 103 Dead in Blasts at Memorial for Killed Iranian Commander Soleimani,\u201d WSJ, 1-3-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIRNA, the state news agency, said the blasts had been caused by a pair of remote-controlled explosive devices.\u201d\u00a0 That is a mark of Al Qaida or ISIS.\u00a0 \u201cAt least 103 people were killed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/01\/03\/5464\/\" 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5464","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\/5464","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=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5498,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions\/5498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}