{"id":5544,"date":"2024-01-14T14:05:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T20:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2024-01-16T01:20:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T07:20:07","slug":"5544","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/01\/14\/5544\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rudaw.net\/english\/middleeast\/iran\/14012024\">\u201cIran executes nearly 20 Kurdish prisoners in two weeks: Watchdog,\u201d<\/a> Rudaw, 1-14-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAccording to an Amnesty International report, Iran became the nation with the second-highest rate of known executions in 2022, having executed 576 people across the country, which was a staggering increase from 314 the year before. The surge of executions did not lose pace in 2023. In July, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) reported that at least 354 people, including six women, were executed in the first six months of 2023 and Iranian authorities reported only 43 of the recorded executions, which make up just 12 percent of the total. \u2026 Many of those who are executed in Iran are convicted based on confessions condemned by rights groups as often obtained under duress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202401140394\">\u201cIranian Official Faces Health Speculation Following Viral Video,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 1-14-24.\u00a0\u00a0Sanctioned by the U.S., and a key foreign adviser in Iran\u2019s controversial and deadly foreign policy, Ali Akbar Velayati is now very ill (see the video).\u00a0 FYI, Argentina is one of six persons with an arrest warrants for the 1994 BA Jewish Center (AMIA) bombing that killed scores.\u00a0 He is on the Wanted list of Interpol.<\/p>\n<p>First, check Webster\u2019s for \u201cdefeated.\u201d\u00a0 Second, Pres. Raisi must be advocating for Military Darwinism when he says, \u201cthe Palestinians, on their own initiative, upgraded the war from a war with stones to a war with missiles and drones.\u201d \u00a0Impressive, in such a short time frame!\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/irans-raisi-declares-victory-of-islamic-world-over-defeated-zionist-regime\">\u201cIran\u2019s Raisi declares victory of Islamic world over \u2018defeated Zionist regime\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 1-14-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/4407277-oct-7-was-the-opening-attack-in-irans-ring-of-fire-war-against-israel\">\u201cOct. 7 was the opening attack in Iran\u2019s \u2018ring of fire\u2019 war against Israel,\u201d<\/a> The Hill, 1-14-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran executes nearly 20 Kurdish prisoners in two weeks: Watchdog,\u201d Rudaw, 1-14-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAccording to an Amnesty International report, Iran became the nation with the second-highest rate of known executions in 2022, having executed 576 people across the country, which was a staggering increase from 314 the year before. The surge of executions did not lose pace &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/01\/14\/5544\/\" 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-5544","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\/5544","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=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5562,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions\/5562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}