{"id":6485,"date":"2024-09-23T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T12:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6485"},"modified":"2024-09-25T07:32:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T12:32:47","slug":"6485","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/09\/23\/6485\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cExclusive: Iran’s Guards ban communications devices after strike on Hezbollah,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 9-23-24.\u00a0 This immediately begs two questions.\u00a0 How will the Regime talk to its soldiers and its proxies, in and outside of Iran and across the Middle East?\u00a0 Second, if a country (Israel) shuts down the communications of another country, isn\u2019t that an act of war?\u00a0 Why isn\u2019t Iran openly declaring war against Israel today?\u00a0 Food for thought.\u00a0 Maybe \u2026 they already are at war.\u00a0 Wait, another question.\u00a0 Did Israel\u2019s use of the pagers violate international law?\u00a0 I wonder if Iran will make that argument.\u00a0 I wonder what Israel would say.\u00a0 I know what NPR says.\u00a0 \u201cExamining whether sophisticated explosions in Lebanon violated international law,\u201d<\/a> NPR, 9-20-24.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince 1979, when the clerical regime came to power, Iran\u2019s agents have killed more than 440 Iranians outside its borders, by the count of the Abdorraham Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran (named for a democratic activist stabbed to death in the lobby of his Paris apartment building by agents of the Islamic Republic in 1991). The count does not include nonfatal attacks.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cIran, Trump, and the Third Assassination Plot,\u201d<\/a> Time, 9-23-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cExclusive: Iran’s Guards ban communications devices after strike on Hezbollah,\u201d Reuters, 9-23-24.\u00a0 This immediately begs two questions.\u00a0 How will the Regime talk to its soldiers and its proxies, in and outside of Iran and across the Middle East?\u00a0 Second, if a country (Israel) shuts down the communications of another country, isn\u2019t that an act of … <\/p>\n

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