{"id":5762,"date":"2024-02-23T08:52:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T14:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5762"},"modified":"2024-02-26T22:35:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T04:35:07","slug":"5762","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/02\/23\/5762\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Lies the United States and Media Told About Iran,\u201d<\/a> Fair Observer, Mehdi Alavi, 2-23-24.\u00a0\u00a0This article would really be sad if it wasn\u2019t so funny.\u00a0 First, it never identifies the lies the U.S. has supposedly said about Iran.\u00a0 Second, it is so ironic that the Kerman story is anything but what implied in this piece by Mr. Alavi.\u00a0 The U.S. actually warned Iran about the ISIS bombers coming to Kerman!\u00a0 The USG tried to save lives!\u00a0 Iran chose to ignore our warning.\u00a0 Finally, my point is also, for Mr. Alavi and others, is that I\u2019m willing to post articles that allegedly cut across the grain of why I keep this news blog on Iran and explain why it is not a normal country.\u00a0 But those articles need to stand on their own and provide evidence for their side.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran was committing “gross violations” of UNSC resolution 1701, as well as violations of UNSC resolutions 2231 and 1540.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201c’Running out of patience’: Iran is giving weapons to Hezbollah, Israel warns UNSC,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 2-23-24.<\/p>\n

Considering the heavy coverage on this story (dozens of articles), that Iran can simply deny but not provide counterproof or directly address the transportation, quotes, photos, or any other types of evidence should be just one more indicator to Iran observers of the long-term veracity of the Regime and its spokespeople.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIran denies providing ballistic missiles to Russia,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 2-23-24.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpanish ex-politician blames Iran for attack in which was shot,\u201d<\/a> Thomson Reuters, 2-23-24.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael issues warning to UNSC over Iran’s weapon shipments to Hezbollah,\u201d<\/a> i24NEWS, 2-23-24.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran has the largest ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East. Now it\u2019s sending them to Russia,\u201d<\/a> NBC, 2-23-24.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran Convicted 44 Foreign-Based Journalists In Absentia, Leaked Document Reveals,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 2-23-24.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeaked Documents Shed Light on How Iran\u2019s Regime Evades International Sanctions,\u201d<\/a> Iran News Update, 2-23-24.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran denies providing ballistic missiles to Russia,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 2-23-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Lies the United States and Media Told About Iran,\u201d Fair Observer, Mehdi Alavi, 2-23-24.\u00a0\u00a0This article would really be sad if it wasn\u2019t so funny.\u00a0 First, it never identifies the lies the U.S. has supposedly said about Iran.\u00a0 Second, it is so ironic that the Kerman story is anything but what implied in this piece … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “”<\/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-5762","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\/5762","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=5762"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5777,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions\/5777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}