{"id":5897,"date":"2024-04-09T09:18:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T14:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5897"},"modified":"2024-04-11T17:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T22:20:20","slug":"5897","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/04\/09\/5897\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/09\/world\/middleeast\/iran-west-bank-weapons-smuggling.html\">\u201cIran Smuggles Arms to West Bank, Officials Say, to Foment Unrest With Israel,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 4-9-24.\u00a0\u00a0In short, I challenge the UN Secretary General to respond to the NYT and Times of Israel stories, and explain what the UN should do in response to Iran\u2019s malign activity.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/report-iran-flooding-west-bank-with-arms-to-foment-unrest-against-israel\/\">\u201cNYT: Iran has flooded West Bank with arms for 2 years, aims to make it next flashpoint,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 4-9-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202404097226\">\u201cAmid Serious Iran-Israel Tension, The Nuclear Elephant Is In The Room,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 4-9-24.<\/p>\n<p>Now Iran threatens UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Iraq.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-says-israeli-presence-uae-is-threat-2024-04-09\/\">\u201cIran says it can close Hormuz Strait, views Israeli presence in UAE as threat,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 4-9-24.<\/p>\n<p>Iran helps both sides in the Ukraine War!\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/09\/politics\/us-iran-arms-ukraine\/index.html\">\u201cUS transfers thousands of seized Iranian guns, rocket launchers and munitions to Ukraine,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 4-9-24.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine losing six years of your life?\u00a0 They did.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/iran-frees-jailed-conservationists-worked-save-cheetahs-109025335\">\u201cIran frees jailed conservationists who worked to save cheetahs,\u201d<\/a> AP, ABC, 4-9-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran Smuggles Arms to West Bank, Officials Say, to Foment Unrest With Israel,\u201d NYT, 4-9-24.\u00a0\u00a0In short, I challenge the UN Secretary General to respond to the NYT and Times of Israel stories, and explain what the UN should do in response to Iran\u2019s malign activity.\u00a0 \u201cNYT: Iran has flooded West Bank with arms for 2 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/04\/09\/5897\/\" 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-5897","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\/5897","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=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5919,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions\/5919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}