{"id":5825,"date":"2024-03-11T18:48:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T23:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5825"},"modified":"2024-03-19T01:11:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T06:11:45","slug":"5825","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/03\/11\/5825\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even since Pres. Obama authorized $425 million\/hostage, the price has only risen.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202403119791\">\u201cIran Wants $2.5 Billion For Dual National Hostage,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 3-11-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cSharmahd along with his family and lawyers have denied the charges and Iran has provided no evidence to support its allegations. Amnesty International has condemned the trial as a sham. \u2026 The Biden administration last year agreed to release at least $6 billion [1.2 billion each] in frozen Iranian funds for the release of five hostages similarly convicted in sham trials.\u201d \u2026 In 2015, President Barack Obama agreed to pay Tehran $1.7bn for the release of four Americans as part of the broader negotiations over the Iran nuclear deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-791260\">\u201cPrinceton students urge Hezbollah to release fellow student, pro-Iranian regime prof refuses to aid,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 3-11-24.\u00a0\u00a0More evidence of Mousavian\u2019s duplicity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/world\/article-russia-iran-and-china-to-hold-warship-drills-in-gulf-of-oman\/\">\u201cRussia, Iran and China to hold warship drills in Gulf of Oman,\u201d<\/a> Globe and Mail, 3-11-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-big-problem-with-irans-strategy-in-the-middle-east-it-works\">\u201cThe Big Problem With Iran\u2019s Strategy in the Middle East: It Works,\u201d<\/a> Daily Beast, 3-11-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amwaj.media\/media-monitor\/as-dust-from-elections-settles-iran-s-conservatives-clash-over-spoils\">\u201cAs dust from elections settles, Iran\u2019s conservatives clash over spoils,\u201d<\/a> Amwaj, 3-11-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/rkuqj0n6a\">\u201cGallant warns Iran stirs terrorism in West Bank amid Ramadan tensions,&#8221;<\/a> Ynet, 3-11-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even since Pres. Obama authorized $425 million\/hostage, the price has only risen.\u00a0 \u201cIran Wants $2.5 Billion For Dual National Hostage,\u201d Iran International, 3-11-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cSharmahd along with his family and lawyers have denied the charges and Iran has provided no evidence to support its allegations. Amnesty International has condemned the trial as a sham. \u2026 The Biden &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/03\/11\/5825\/\" 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-5825","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\/5825","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=5825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5868,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions\/5868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}