{"id":7051,"date":"2025-01-29T06:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7051"},"modified":"2025-02-11T22:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T04:05:47","slug":"7051","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/01\/29\/7051\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating.\u00a0 But concerning.\u00a0 Russia may transfer and expand to Libya.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t know about port usage there.\u00a0 The additional interesting thing to watch here is what does the new Syria demand of Iran?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/middle-east\/levant-turkey\/artc-syria-s-new-government-demands-russia-extradite-bashar-al-assad\">\u201cSyria&#8217;s new government demands Russia extradite Bashar al-Assad,\u201d<\/a> i24, 1-29-25.<\/p>\n<p>Nice overview.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/commonslibrary.parliament.uk\/iran-in-2025-how-strong-does-it-remain-in-the-middle-east\/\">\u201cIran in 2025: How strong does it remain in the Middle East?,\u201d<\/a> UK House of Parliament, 1-29-25.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq harboring Iran proxy groups running from Syria?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/policy-analysis\/hundreds-iran-backed-fatemiyoun-and-zainabiyoun-terrorists-warehoused-iraqi\">\u201cHundreds of Iran-Backed Fatemiyoun and Zainabiyoun Terrorists Warehoused at Iraqi Government Bases,\u201d<\/a> Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1-29-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iranwire.com\/en\/news\/138585-political-prisoners-in-iran-charged-insulting-supreme-leader\/\">\u201cPolitical Prisoners in Iran Charged Insulting Supreme Leader,\u201d<\/a> Iran Wire, 1-29-25.\u00a0\u00a0Quotes of the Day:\u00a0 \u201cYour situation has become even worse than Bashar al-Assad\u2019s was a month ago. You no longer have the power to suppress, nor do you have any time left for deception.\u201d \u2026 \u201cI have neither a first defense nor a last one. My freedom will come with the overthrow of the Islamic Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/chinese-and-iranian-hackers-are-using-u-s-ai-products-to-bolster-cyberattacks-ff3c5884\">\u201cChinese and Iranian Hackers Are Using U.S. AI Products to Bolster Cyberattacks,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 1-29-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/iran-suggests-expelling-israelis-greenland-2022727\">\u201cIran Suggests Expelling Israelis to Greenland,\u201d<\/a> Newsweek, 1-29-25.\u00a0\u00a0From FM Araghchi himself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iranhumanrights.org\/2025\/01\/irans-campaign-of-terror-against-minorities-surges-across-country\/\">\u201cIran\u2019s Campaign of Terror Against Minorities Surges Across Country,\u201d<\/a> Center for Human Rights in Iran, 1-29-25.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe Iranian government has greatly escalated its brutal crackdown on ethnic minority groups in recent weeks, employing unlawful mass raids, violent arrests, and enforced disappearances against hundreds of members of these communities across the country in order to silence peaceful dissent, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said today. \u201cThe systematic persecution of Kurds, Arabs, Baluchis, and Azeri Turks has reached alarming levels, as the Islamic Republic escalates its campaign of terror against these communities in order to silence and suppress them,\u201d said Hadi Ghaemi, CHRI\u2019s executive director. \u201cThe targeting of Iran\u2019s minority communities is a deliberate state strategy to silence dissent, erase cultural identities, and exert control over communities who have long been subjected to the Islamic Republic\u2019s oppressive and discriminatory policies,\u201d Ghaemi said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202501293808\">\u201cIran to import 50,000 tons of potatoes to combat price hikes,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 1-29-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memri.org\/reports\/head-hamas-youth-department-mohammad-al-najjar-iran-tv-october-7-will-be-repeated-attacks\">\u201cHead Of Hamas Youth Department Mohammad Al-Najjar To Iran TV: October 7 Will Be Repeated With Attacks From The West Bank, Lebanon, Egypt; We Are Grateful For Iran Providing Such Technologies As UAVs To Gaza, January 29, 2025,\u201d<\/a> MEMRI, 1-29-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating.\u00a0 But concerning.\u00a0 Russia may transfer and expand to Libya.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t know about port usage there.\u00a0 The additional interesting thing to watch here is what does the new Syria demand of Iran?\u00a0 \u201cSyria&#8217;s new government demands Russia extradite Bashar al-Assad,\u201d i24, 1-29-25. Nice overview.\u00a0 \u201cIran in 2025: How strong does it remain in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/01\/29\/7051\/\" 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-7051","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\/7051","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=7051"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7105,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions\/7105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}