{"id":6257,"date":"2024-07-02T17:02:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T22:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6257"},"modified":"2024-07-28T18:33:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T23:33:56","slug":"6257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/07\/02\/6257\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellenicshippingnews.com\/turkey-resumed-oil-imports-from-iran-in-march-after-4-years-data-shows\/\">\u201cTurkey resumed oil imports from Iran in March after 4 years: data shows,\u201d<\/a> Hellenic News, 7-2-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-runoff-election-jalili-pezeshkian-mideast-tensions-9a146e2a73411e1623e15ce09a140b44\">\u201cAs Iran faces a rare runoff presidential election, disenchanted voters are staying away,\u201d<\/a> AP, 7-2-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202407027132\">\u201cKhatami says discontent in Iran extends beyond the 60% who didn&#8217;t vote,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 7-2-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellenicshippingnews.com\/iran-is-exporting-crude-oil-to-17-countries-minister-tells-mehr\/\">\u201cIran is Exporting Crude Oil to 17 Countries, Minster Tells Mehr,\u201d<\/a> Mehr, 7-2-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiproud.com\/news\/national\/ap-irans-presidential-candidates-discuss-economic-sanctions-and-nuclear-deal-ahead-of-july-5-runoff\/\">\u201cIran\u2019s presidential candidates discuss economic sanctions and nuclear deal ahead of Friday runoff,\u201d<\/a> AP, 7-2-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/how-saeed-jalili-refusal-quit-may-hand-iran-reformist\">\u201cIran election: How Saeed Jalili\u2019s refusal to quit may hand victory to the reformists,\u201d<\/a> MEE, 7-2-24.\u00a0\u00a0It is interesting to see in this article clear support for this blog\u2019s position that the Leader calls the shots, and asks various candidates to drop out so the Leader\u2019s favorite can win.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-runoff-election-jalili-pezeshkian-mideast-tensions-9a146e2a73411e1623e15ce09a140b44\">\u201cAs Iran faces a rare runoff presidential election, disenchanted voters are staying away,\u201d<\/a> AP, 7-2-24.<\/p>\n<p>Here is another article showing the discontentment of citizens.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/podcasts\/2024\/7\/2\/the-take-why-is-iran-seeing-its-lowest-voter-turnout-ever\">\u201cThe Take: Why is Iran seeing its lowest voter turnout ever?,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 7-2-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/iran-nuclear-now-targeting-african-uranium-1920269\">\u201cU.S. Nuclear Fears as Iran Targets African Uranium,\u201d<\/a> Newsweek, 7-2-24.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s have the UN Secretary General call out Niger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran becomes 4th largest oil exporter in OPEC: Report,\u201d Mehr, 7-2-24.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/217141\/Iran-becomes-4th-largest-oil-exporter-in-OPEC-Report<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/top-adviser-to-khamenei-says-iran-will-back-hezbollah-with-all-means-if-war-breaks-out\/\">\u201cTop adviser to Khamenei says Iran will back Hezbollah with all means if war breaks out,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 7-2-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cA top adviser to Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader says the Islamic Republic and its proxies would support Hezbollah with \u201call means\u201d if Israel launches a war in Lebanon, the Financial Times reports. While stressing that Iran is not interested in a war, Kamal Kharrazi, Ali Khamenei\u2019s foreign affairs adviser, warns that \u201cthere would be a chance of expansion of the war to the whole region, in which all countries including Iran would become engaged. In that situation, we would have no choice but to support Hezbollah by all means.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/rk00p9k11v0\">\u201cDisenchanted Iranian voters abstain in rare runoff presidential election,\u201d<\/a> Ynet, 7-2-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTurkey resumed oil imports from Iran in March after 4 years: data shows,\u201d Hellenic News, 7-2-24. \u201cAs Iran faces a rare runoff presidential election, disenchanted voters are staying away,\u201d AP, 7-2-24. \u201cKhatami says discontent in Iran extends beyond the 60% who didn&#8217;t vote,\u201d Iran International, 7-2-24. \u201cIran is Exporting Crude Oil to 17 Countries, Minster &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/07\/02\/6257\/\" 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-6257","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\/6257","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=6257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6312,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions\/6312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}