{"id":7703,"date":"2025-07-06T19:07:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7703"},"modified":"2025-07-10T15:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:54:44","slug":"7703","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/07\/06\/7703\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHezbollah leader refuses to disarm until Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 7-6-25.<\/p>\n

The NYT almost makes Evin Prison out to be a Holiday Inn, with its written description and selection of photos.\u00a0 Instead, this is Iran\u2019s most notorious prison.\u00a0 Why did Israel select where to drop bombs?\u00a0 The NYT doesn\u2019t really answer that, nor does it explore the issue of who could have escaped.\u00a0 They do recount it took extra security three hours to arrive, and that Evin is now closed with the prisoners transferred.\u00a0 This blog has several times mentioned Evin over the years, and it is good physically and symbolically to now be shuttered.\u00a0 See \u201cIsrael\u2019s Deadly Assault on Iran Prison Incites Fury, Even Among Dissidents,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 7-6-25.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina and Russia Keep Their Distance From Iran During Crisis,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 7-6-25.\u00a0\u00a0This author has it wrong that there is no axis.\u00a0 Instead, \u201cYun Sun, a scholar of China\u2019s foreign policy at the Stimson Center, a research institute in Washington, argued that the \u201caxis\u201d formulation for China, Russia, Iran and North Korea was still valid. Although the four countries do not have a mutual defense agreement binding all of them, she said, they share an \u201canti-U.S., anti-West and anti-liberal democracy\u201d outlook.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHezbollah leader refuses to disarm until Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon,\u201d Politico, 7-6-25. The NYT almost makes Evin Prison out to be a Holiday Inn, with its written description and selection of photos.\u00a0 Instead, this is Iran\u2019s most notorious prison.\u00a0 Why did Israel select where to drop bombs?\u00a0 The NYT doesn\u2019t really answer that, nor … <\/p>\n

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