{"id":6094,"date":"2024-05-21T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T15:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6094"},"modified":"2024-05-22T08:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T13:04:49","slug":"6094","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/05\/21\/6094\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Iran inserts a Regime member into American academia, these types of opinion pieces continue.\u00a0 Many persons besides me continue to call on Princeton to divest itself from this person, Seyed Mousavian.\u00a0 Here is the latest article, which makes the claim \u201cIran could seek another unifying president like Raisi\u201d\u2014he was anything but.\u00a0 Just ask any Iranian or Syrian, or Lebanese citizen, let along Israeli or Yemeni or Saudi.\u00a0 Or ask someone from Afghanistan or UAE.\u00a0 Or how about Jordan.\u00a0 Don\u2019t forget Iraq.\u00a0 And this is just the start, we haven\u2019t touched Europe or North America. (Mousavian attempts to portray Raisi as a positive &#8220;unifier&#8221; for the Regime, bringing together a president who aligned the executive with the legislature and the Supreme Leader.\u00a0 But this is anything but unity, as Mousavian does not address, that the Leader&#8217;s \/ Regime&#8217;s policies are deadly for Iranians and the region).\u00a0\u00a0See the piece at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/opinion\/iran-ebrahim-raisi-president-death-crossroads\">\u201cEbrahim Raisi: The president&#8217;s death leaves Iran at a crossroads,\u201d<\/a> MEE, 5-21-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/world-middle-east-69039735\">\u201cThousands on streets for Iranian president&#8217;s funeral after crash,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 5-21-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/iran-s-rulers-crack-down-on-expressions-of-joy-at-raisi-s-death\/7622011.html\">\u201cIran\u2019s rulers crack down on expressions of joy at Raisi\u2019s death,\u201d<\/a> VOA, 5-21-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201c[S]everal citizens who reported being ordered by security agencies to remove online content expressing joy at Raisi\u2019s demise.\u00a0 The head of Iran\u2019s cyber police had warned a day earlier that authorities were \u201ccarefully monitoring cyberspace&#8221; and advised citizens to refrain from publishing \u201cprovocative\u201d content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/21\/world\/middleeast\/iran-election-president-death-ayatollah.html\">\u201cAfter Raisi\u2019s Death, Elections Pose Tricky Test for Iran\u2019s Rulers,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 5-21-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/middle-east-and-africa\/2024\/05\/21\/the-death-of-the-president-changes-the-power-dynamics-in-iran\">\u201cThe death of the president changes the power dynamics in Iran,\u201d<\/a> Economist, 5-21-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/5\/21\/who-is-ali-bagheri-kani-irans-acting-foreign-minister\">\u201cWho is Ali Bagh<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">eri Kani, Iran\u2019s acting foreign minister?,\u201d Al Jazeera, 5-21-24.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Iran inserts a Regime member into American academia, these types of opinion pieces continue.\u00a0 Many persons besides me continue to call on Princeton to divest itself from this person, Seyed Mousavian.\u00a0 Here is the latest article, which makes the claim \u201cIran could seek another unifying president like Raisi\u201d\u2014he was anything but.\u00a0 Just ask any &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/05\/21\/6094\/\" 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-6094","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\/6094","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=6094"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6103,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6094\/revisions\/6103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}