{"id":7747,"date":"2025-07-27T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7747"},"modified":"2025-08-23T18:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:17:45","slug":"7747","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/07\/27\/7747\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paranoia continues.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202507276335\">\u201cIran bans mobile phones in parliament over security concerns,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 7-27-25.<\/p>\n<p>Did not know this estimated number.\u00a0 \u201cOfficials have said that they believe that potentially hundreds of Israelis have been working on behalf of Iran, in an effort that Tehran has accelerated within the past couple of years.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/iran-born-israeli-charged-with-giving-sensitive-info-on-israels-war-plans-to-tehran\/\">\u201cIran-born Israeli charged with giving Tehran sensitive info on Israel\u2019s war plans,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 7-27-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amwaj.media\/en\/article\/how-iran-s-strike-on-qatar-s-al-udeid-base-is-changing-regional-dynamics\">\u201cHow Iran\u2019s strike on Qatar\u2019s Al-Udeid Base is changing regional dynamics,\u201d<\/a> Amwaj, 7-27-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c1kz773n2e1o\">\u201cWait to speak to hostage parents &#8216;intolerable&#8217;,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 7-27-25.\u00a0\u00a0\u201c[N]ot been able to speak to his parents in more than 200 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/irans-africa-activities-pose-significant-threats-us-national-security\">\u201cIran&#8217;s Africa activities pose &#8216;significant threats to US national security&#8217;,\u201d<\/a> Fox, 7-27-25.\u00a0 \u201cState Department joins Senate Foreign Relations Chairman in raising alarm over Tehran&#8217;s uranium purchases and drone supplies.\u201d\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0\u00a0Tehran is accused of reportedly buying uranium in Niger, supplying drones in violation of a U.N. arms embargo to forces in Sudan and promoting the growth of destabilizing Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism on the continent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/iran-executes-2-opposition-members-alleged-attacks-civilian-124111727\">\u201cIran executes 2 opposition members over alleged attacks on civilian sites,\u201d<\/a> AP, 7-27-25.\u00a0\u00a0Two MEKs were hung.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2025\/7\/27\/irans-plan-to-abandon-gps-is-about-much-more-than-technology\">\u201cIran\u2019s plan to abandon GPS is about much more than technology,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 7-27-25.\u00a0\u00a0Iran is \u201cdeveloping a plan to switch transportation, agriculture and the internet from GPS to [China\u2019s] BeiDou.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paranoia continues.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIran bans mobile phones in parliament over security concerns,\u201d Iran International, 7-27-25. Did not know this estimated number.\u00a0 \u201cOfficials have said that they believe that potentially hundreds of Israelis have been working on behalf of Iran, in an effort that Tehran has accelerated within the past couple of years.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cIran-born Israeli charged with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/07\/27\/7747\/\" 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-7747","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\/7747","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=7747"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7782,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions\/7782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}