{"id":6696,"date":"2024-11-16T18:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T00:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6696"},"modified":"2024-11-26T11:50:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:42","slug":"6696","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/11\/16\/6696\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Realism.\u00a0 Worry.\u00a0 Results in public meeting with Trump official.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-musk-iran-united-states-c51088cb0ef284d2c5657408cd74c4e5\">\u201cIranian official met with Musk in a possible step to ease tensions with Trump,\u201d<\/a> AP, 11-16-24.\u00a0 Note that the article says it was Iran who sought the meeting with Elon Musk.\u00a0 Also, \u201cIran\u2019s U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani met with Musk \u2026 on Monday in New York, according to a U.S. official briefed on the meeting by a foreign colleague. The official said he had been informed that the discussion covered a variety of topics, most notably Iran\u2019s nuclear program, its support for anti-Israel groups throughout the Middle East and prospects for improved relations with the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ah ha.\u00a0 The case in the ICJ was not about genocide, but paid for by Iran.\u00a0 I wonder if this will be reflected in the Court&#8217;s written decision?\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/h1msjxlfje#:~:text=A%20new%20report%20by%20the%20Institute%20for%20the,Court%20%28ICC%29%20accusing%20Israel%20of%20genocide%20in%20Gaza.\">\u201cIran and Qatar behind South Africa\u2019s World Court case against Israel, report claims,\u201d<\/a> Ynet, 11-16-24.<\/p>\n<p>And really enforce the current sanctions, which the Biden Admin. has let go slack, especially oil sales to China.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-829374\">\u201cTrump admin. plans to bankrupt Iran with &#8216;maximum pressure&#8217; policies \u2013 report,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 11-16-24.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/16\/middleeast\/iran-denies-musk-meeting-intl\/index.html\">\u201cIran \u2018categorically denies\u2019 UN envoy met Elon Musk,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 11-16-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Realism.\u00a0 Worry.\u00a0 Results in public meeting with Trump official.\u00a0 \u201cIranian official met with Musk in a possible step to ease tensions with Trump,\u201d AP, 11-16-24.\u00a0 Note that the article says it was Iran who sought the meeting with Elon Musk.\u00a0 Also, \u201cIran\u2019s U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani met with Musk \u2026 on Monday in New &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/11\/16\/6696\/\" 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-6696","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\/6696","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=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6713,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions\/6713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}