{"id":6814,"date":"2024-12-04T07:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T13:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6814"},"modified":"2024-12-29T01:13:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T07:13:40","slug":"6814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/12\/04\/6814\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to survive?\u00a0 Why not act as a regular country?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iiss.org\/online-analysis\/online-analysis\/2024\/12\/irans-strategic-limbo\/\">\u201cIran\u2019s strategic limbo,\u201d<\/a> IISS, 12-4-24.<\/p>\n<p>The NYTimes has to be careful it is not helping make reality instead of reporting the news.\u00a0 I am always leery of news saying something has been secret for months but now we are going to tell you.\u00a0 Instead, I prefer to not think about this as a choice of Assad\u2019s, but his being forced by Iran to do its bidding.\u00a0 It is not his staying in power.\u00a0 It is Iran telling Syria what to do, on pain of \u2026.\u00a0\u00a0 And this is what the NYT article does say finally at the end.\u00a0 BTW, the article also helps the reader know the mess that present Syria is\u2014\u201cSyria is now territorially divided among Mr. al-Assad, Islamist militants, U.S.-backed Kurdish groups and Turkish-backed rebels.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/04\/world\/middleeast\/syria-assad-israel-iran.html\">\u201cWith Assad Challenged, a Push to Cut Syria\u2019s Ties to Iran Grows More Unlikely,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 12-4-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/04\/middleeast\/iran-releases-narges-mohammadi-temporary-intl-latam\/index.html\">\u201cIran\u2019s jailed Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi allowed to leave prison for 21 days after surgery,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 12-4-24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran, there have been 798 exe\u00adcu\u00adtions in Iran as of December 1, 2024. With at least 310 exe\u00adcu\u00adtions in the past two months, \u200b\u201cthe Islamic Republic has begun the most exten\u00adsive wave of exe\u00adcu\u00adtions in Iranian pris\u00adons in the last two decades.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/deathpenaltyinfo.org\/worldwide-international-monthly-roundup-china-iran-saudi-arabia-singapore-and-vietnam\">\u201cWorldwide Monthly Roundup: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Vietnam,\u201d<\/a> DPIC, 12-4-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2024\/12\/04\/738453\/Iran-Majid-Takht-Ravanchi-NPT-snapback-mechanism-JCPOA\">\u201cIran\u2019s deputy FM warns of possible withdrawal from NPT in case of snapback activation,\u201d<\/a> Press TV, 12-4-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202411050906\">\u201cIran sees record divorce rates as couples blame economic hardships,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 12-4-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/nobel-committee-calls-for-permanent-release-of-irans-mohammadi\/\">\u201cNobel committee calls for \u2018permanent\u2019 release of Iran\u2019s Mohammadi,\u201d<\/a> AFP, Times of Israel, 12-4-24.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is No. 1 in terror incidents, and No. 2 in disinformation.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scworld.com\/news\/meta-russia-tops-disinformation-ops-followed-by-iran-and-china\">\u201cMeta: Russia tops disinformation ops, followed by Iran and China,\u201d<\/a> SC World, 12-4-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to survive?\u00a0 Why not act as a regular country?\u00a0 \u201cIran\u2019s strategic limbo,\u201d IISS, 12-4-24. The NYTimes has to be careful it is not helping make reality instead of reporting the news.\u00a0 I am always leery of news saying something has been secret for months but now we are going to tell you.\u00a0 Instead, I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/12\/04\/6814\/\" 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-6814","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\/6814","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=6814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6902,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions\/6902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}