{"id":785,"date":"2020-05-02T07:46:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T12:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=785"},"modified":"2020-05-04T12:52:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T17:52:18","slug":"785","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/05\/02\/785\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>65 more people died Friday, reported on Saturday on state TV.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-05\/02\/c_139026217.htm\">\u201cIran&#8217;s COVID-19 deaths hit 6,156: health ministry,\u201d<\/a> Xinhua, May 2, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>About 50 Afghan migrants crossing into Iran illegally were beaten and thrown into a river, local news media and witnesses say. As many as half did not survive.\u00a0 Iran says they will investigate, we\u2019ll see.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/02\/world\/asia\/afghanistan-iran-migrants-drown.html\">\u201cAfghanistan Investigating Claims Migrants Were Killed by Iranian Guards,\u201d<\/a> Mujib Mashal and Asadullah Tiimory, New York Times, May 2, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>65 died from with the coronavirus on Friday, reported on Saturday.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/1100105320\/Iran-sees-spike-in-COVID-19-deaths\"> \u201cIran sees spike in COVID-19 deaths,\u201d<\/a> Elnur Baghishov, Trend, May 2, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.radiofarda.com\/a\/rights-defender-says-iranian-journalists-face-danger-in-turkey\/30588824.html\">\u201cRights Defender Says Iranian Journalists Face Danger In Turkey,\u201d<\/a> Radio Farda, May 2, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Another example of either it happened or it didn\u2019t.\u00a0 It would be great if the media followed up on this types of disagreements and investigated which country is telling the truth\u2014Did Mahan Air come to VZ?\u00a0 Did it bring gasoline catalysts?\u00a0 Did it return to Iran with gold?\u00a0 Those are not hard questions to investigate.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/da6d3dcee53ef76a4d90a78dbcb8a06c\">\u201cIran rejects \u2018baseless\u2019 US comments on aid to Venezuela,\u201d<\/a> AP, May 2, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>65 more people died Friday, reported on Saturday on state TV.\u00a0 \u201cIran&#8217;s COVID-19 deaths hit 6,156: health ministry,\u201d Xinhua, May 2, 2020. About 50 Afghan migrants crossing into Iran illegally were beaten and thrown into a river, local news media and witnesses say. As many as half did not survive.\u00a0 Iran says they will investigate, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/05\/02\/785\/\" 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","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\/785","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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}