{"id":6493,"date":"2024-09-26T11:51:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6493"},"modified":"2024-10-01T08:05:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T13:05:32","slug":"6493","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/09\/26\/6493\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/09\/26\/trump-iran-nyc-press-conference-00181367\">\u201cTrump makes a surprising overture to Iran at NYC press conference,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 9-26-24.\u00a0 Iran\u2019s FM, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, had said Monday at the UN that Iran was open to discussing nuclear negotiations.\u00a0 Trump says no nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/09\/26\/trump-campaign-hack-iran-indictment-00181321\">\u201cIranians indicted in connection with Trump campaign hack,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 9-26-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/investigations\/us-offers-20-million-reward-info-iran-plot-kill-trump-adviser-bolton-rcna172847\">\u201cBiden admin offers $20 million reward for info on Iranian charged with plot to kill ex-Trump official John Bolton,\u201d<\/a> NBC, 9-26-24.\u00a0\u00a0Hey!\u00a0 Zarif makes an appearance!\u00a0 \u201cWhen asked about alleged threats of assassination against American officials, Iranian Vice President Mohammad Javad Zarif told NBC News\u2019 Andrea Mitchell in an interview this week, \u201cWe do not assassinate people, but the fact of the matter is \u2014 they assassinated a revered Iranian general.\u201d\u201d\u00a0 Soleimani\u2014revered?\u00a0 Maybe Zarif is speaking of someone else.\u00a0 But back to the point\u2014the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s government has assassinated many persons.\u00a0 Mitchell should have started naming them.\u00a0 Let\u2019s start in 1979.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stimson.org\/2024\/iranian-president-pezeshkian-checks-the-boxes-in-new-york\/\">\u201cIranian President Pezeshkian Checks the Boxes in New York,\u201d<\/a> Stimson, 9-26-24.\u00a0\u00a0Pres. Pezeshkian has brought back former FM (now VP) Javad Zarif (who has a knack of saying one thing in English in Western arenas and another thing in Farsi back home) and Zarif\u2019s former deputies, Abbas Araghchi, now FM, and Majid Takht-Ravanchi, a former Iran ambassador to the UN and negotiator of the JCPOA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/skp8qmq0c\">\u201cIran, Hezbollah enabled Houthis&#8217; rise, says UN report,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 9-26-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe rebel group is transformed into an army with weapons training and assistance provided by other members of Iran&#8217;s axis despite a de facto UN embargo on arms since 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrump makes a surprising overture to Iran at NYC press conference,\u201d Politico, 9-26-24.\u00a0 Iran\u2019s FM, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, had said Monday at the UN that Iran was open to discussing nuclear negotiations.\u00a0 Trump says no nuclear weapons. \u201cIranians indicted in connection with Trump campaign hack,\u201d Politico, 9-26-24. \u201cBiden admin offers $20 million reward for info &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/09\/26\/6493\/\" 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-6493","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\/6493","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=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6528,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}