{"id":6304,"date":"2024-07-24T17:39:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T22:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6304"},"modified":"2024-07-28T18:38:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T23:38:21","slug":"6304","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/07\/24\/6304\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half a billion dollars.\u00a0 For Armenia.\u00a0 This was cleared by Moscow.\u00a0 And is a shot against Azeris.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202407248345\">\u201cIran and Armenia\u202f sign secret $500 million arms deal,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 7-24-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2024\/07\/the-uncomfortable-reality-of-russia-and-irans-new-defense-relationship\/\">\u201cThe Uncomfortable Reality of Russia and Iran\u2019s New Defense Relationship,\u201d<\/a> War on the Rocks, 7-24-24.<\/p>\n<p>A really unusual story, trying to get the former and controversial president out of the way.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/iranian-ex-president-ahmadinejad-nearly-killed-assassination-attempt-report-1929646\">\u201cIranian Ex-President Ahmadinejad Nearly Killed in Assassination Attempt: Report,\u201d<\/a> Newsweek, 7-24-24.\u00a0\u00a0And see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202407247564\">\u201cIran&#8217;s Ahmadinejad escaped assassination attempt,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 7-24-24.\u00a0\u00a0The steering and brakes failed at the same time\u2014that doesn\u2019t happen in cars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-extremism-iran-hezbollah-ban-raids-hamburg-e93b1496c235ed379aeda3bd5c63c32f\">\u201cGermany carries out raids and bans a group accused of links to Iran and support for Hezbollah,\u201d<\/a> AP, 7-24-24.\u00a0\u00a0Read this, then read it again.\u00a0 \u201cThe German government on Wednesday banned an organization accused of being an \u201coutpost\u201d of Iran\u2019s theocracy, promoting the ideology of its leadership and supporting Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah militant group. Police raided 53 properties around the country, including a prominent mosque in Hamburg. The ban on the Islamic Center Hamburg, or IZH, and five suborganizations around Germany followed searches in November. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said evidence gathered in the investigation \u201cconfirmed the serious suspicions to such a degree that we ordered the ban today.\u201d The IZH \u201cpromotes an Islamist-extremist, totalitarian ideology in Germany,\u201d while it and its suborganizations \u201calso support the terrorists of Hezbollah and spread aggressive antisemitism,\u201d Faeser said in a statement. Her ministry said that \u201cas the direct representative of Iran\u2019s \u2018Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution,\u2019 the IZH disseminates the ideology of the Islamic Revolution in an aggressive and militant way and seeks to bring about such a revolution in the Federal Republic of Germany.\u201d This is a mission existing in multiple countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half a billion dollars.\u00a0 For Armenia.\u00a0 This was cleared by Moscow.\u00a0 And is a shot against Azeris.\u00a0 \u201cIran and Armenia\u202f sign secret $500 million arms deal,\u201d Iran International, 7-24-24. \u201cThe Uncomfortable Reality of Russia and Iran\u2019s New Defense Relationship,\u201d War on the Rocks, 7-24-24. 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