{"id":854,"date":"2020-05-10T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T16:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=854"},"modified":"2020-05-11T06:34:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T11:34:41","slug":"854","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/05\/10\/854\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian spokesman Ali Rabiei said Sunday (today) on the government\u2019s website, Dolat.ir that \u201cWe have stated our readiness to discuss the release of all prisoners without preconditions &#8230; but Americans have not responded yet.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m quite confident that communications are ongoing through the Swiss Embassy in Tehran regardless of Rabiei\u2019s statement.\u00a0 Do note that he calls both sides as holding \u201cprisoners\u201d\u2014the persons held by Iran are hostages.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iran-usa-prisoners\/iran-ready-to-swap-prisoners-with-u-s-without-preconditions-khabaronline-idUSKBN22M04Q\">\u201cIran says United States yet to respond about prisoner swap,\u201d<\/a> Parisa Hafezi, Reuters, May 10, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not even going to look up who this Gordon Duff fellow is, he\u2019s no expert.\u00a0 But having a few Westerners to provide quotes that the Regime uses to try to prove the mettle of its military just won\u2019t hold water.\u00a0 We should criticize these individuals who try to empower Iran and keep it from moving to act as a normal country.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/447726\/Iran-s-military-power-is-a-nightmare-for-U-S-hardliners-analyst\">\u201cIran\u2019s military power is a \u2018nightmare\u2019 for U.S. hardliners: analyst,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, May 10, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian spokesman Ali Rabiei said Sunday (today) on the government\u2019s website, Dolat.ir that \u201cWe have stated our readiness to discuss the release of all prisoners without preconditions &#8230; but Americans have not responded yet.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m quite confident that communications are ongoing through the Swiss Embassy in Tehran regardless of Rabiei\u2019s statement.\u00a0 Do note that he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/05\/10\/854\/\" 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-854","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\/854","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=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}