{"id":8091,"date":"2025-10-16T23:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8091"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:17:54","slug":"8091","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/10\/16\/8091\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/former-security-guard-us-embassy-norway-convicted-spying-126573621\">\u201cFormer security guard at US Embassy in Norway convicted of spying for Russia and Iran,\u201d<\/a> AP, 10-16-25.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cProsecutors said he handed over details about the embassy\u2019s diplomats, its floor plans and security routines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2025\/10\/iran-un-member-states-must-urgently-press-authorities-to-halt-executions-after-horrifying-increase\/\">&#8220;Iran: UN member states must urgently press authorities to halt executions after horrifying increase,\u201d<\/a> Amnesty International, 10-16-25.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cUN Member states must confront the Iranian authorities\u2019 shocking execution spree with the urgency it demands. More than 1,000 people have already been executed in Iran since the beginning of 2025 \u2013 an average of four a day. Since the Woman Life Freedom uprising of 2022, the Iranian authorities have increasingly weaponized the death penalty to instill fear among the population, crush dissent and punish marginalized communities. This year, executions have reached a scale not seen in Iran since 1989.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFormer security guard at US Embassy in Norway convicted of spying for Russia and Iran,\u201d AP, 10-16-25.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cProsecutors said he handed over details about the embassy\u2019s diplomats, its floor plans and security routines.\u201d &#8220;Iran: UN member states must urgently press authorities to halt executions after horrifying increase,\u201d Amnesty International, 10-16-25.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cUN Member states must confront the Iranian &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/10\/16\/8091\/\" 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-8091","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\/8091","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=8091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8092,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions\/8092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}