{"id":5803,"date":"2024-03-02T05:19:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T11:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5803"},"modified":"2024-03-18T23:52:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T04:52:06","slug":"5803","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/03\/02\/5803\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202403026420\">\u201cEx-President Khatami Abstains From Voting In Iran Elections,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 3-2-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Iran-Raisi-Re-Elected-for-Assembly-of-Experts-20240302-0008.html\">\u201cIran: Raisi Re-Elected for Assembly of Experts,&#8221;<\/a> teleSur, 3-2-24.\u00a0\u00a0And see the Supreme Leader cast his vote, covered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IrnaEnglish\/status\/1763441927314399500\">&#8220;IRN<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">A News Agency and by X.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2024\/03\/02\/iran-musician-shervin-hajipour-sentenced-prison\/6181709406090\/\">\u201cGrammy winner gets 3-year prison sentence in Iran for anti-regime song,\u201d<\/a> UPI, 3-2-24.\u00a0\u00a0He wrote the song about the death of Mahsa Amini.\u00a0 And the Regime requires Hajipour to \u201calso write a song about U.S. \u2018atrocities against humanity\u2019,\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll say it again. \u00a0The world will have to decide if Iran will hold the Strait hostage.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/yemen-houthi-rebels-rubymar-sinks-red-sea-fb64a490ce935756337ee3606e15d093?utm_source=iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=9195370_\">\u201cA ship earlier hit by Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels sinks in the Red Sea, the first vessel lost in conflict,\u201d<\/a> AP, 3-2-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe Rubymar, which carried a cargo of fertilizer and previously leaked fuel, could cause ecological damage to the Red Sea and its coral reefs.\u00a0 Persistent Houthi attacks have already disrupted traffic in the crucial waterway for cargo and energy shipments moving from Asia and the Middle East to Europe. Already, many ships have turned away from the route.\u201d\u00a0 They are going around the Cape of Good Hope, adding 10 days and hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian threat to overthrow the Kuwait government has finally resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/english.aawsat.com\/gulf\/4887561-kuwait-top-court-criminalizes-lebanon%E2%80%99s-hezbollah\">\u201cKuwait Top Court Criminalizes Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah,\u201d<\/a> Asharq Al-Awsat, 3-2-24.\u00a0 BTW, Kuwait has made few entries on this blog over the years.\u00a0 But here, the threat was too great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEx-President Khatami Abstains From Voting In Iran Elections,\u201d Iran International, 3-2-24. \u201cIran: Raisi Re-Elected for Assembly of Experts,&#8221; teleSur, 3-2-24.\u00a0\u00a0And see the Supreme Leader cast his vote, covered by the &#8220;IRNA News Agency and by X.&#8221; \u201cGrammy winner gets 3-year prison sentence in Iran for anti-regime song,\u201d UPI, 3-2-24.\u00a0\u00a0He wrote the song about the death &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/03\/02\/5803\/\" 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-5803","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\/5803","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=5803"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5850,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions\/5850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}