{"id":908,"date":"2020-05-21T09:57:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=908"},"modified":"2020-05-30T00:39:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T05:39:28","slug":"908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/05\/21\/908\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has spent as much as $30 billion to help Syria win its civil war and keep President Bashar Al-Assad in power, and maintain its campaign to fully control Lebanon and one day eliminate Israel.\u00a0 MP Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, who has been a vital part of Iran\u2019s national security and foreign policy commission, revealed this yesterday to the Iranian state-affiliated Etemad newspaper.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20200521-iran-mp-we-have-spent-30bn-defending-assad-syria-must-pay-us-back\">\u201cIran MP: We have spent $30bn defending Assad, Syria must pay us back,\u201d<\/a> Middle East Monitor, May 21, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/podcast\/political-scene\/could-the-coronavirus-pandemic-change-irans-political-future?utm_source=nl&amp;utm_brand=pol&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_mailing=thematic_ballot_052720&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;bxid=5bd680c724c17c104803ca07&amp;cndid=51708673&amp;utm_content=Final&amp;utm_term=Thematic_Ballot_Subscribers\">\u201cCould the Coronavirus Pandemic Change Iran\u2019s Political Future?,\u201d<\/a> Dorothy Wickenden, New Yorker, May 21, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/iran-has-banned-use-of-all-israel-tech-as-crime-against-god-good-luck-with-that\">\u201cIran has banned all use of Israeli tech. Really? That would set it back 50 years,\u201d<\/a> David Horovitz, op-ed, Times of Israel, May 21, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/security\/exclusive-iran-aims-disrupt-2020-elections-cyberhack-intelligence-insiders-say\">\u201cIran aims to disrupt 2020 elections via cyber hacking, intelligence officials say,\u201d<\/a> John Solomon and Susan Katz Keating, Just the News, May 21, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/podcast\/political-scene\/could-the-coronavirus-pandemic-change-irans-political-future?utm_source=nl&amp;utm_brand=pol&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_mailing=thematic_ballot_052720&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;bxid=5bd680c724c17c104803ca07&amp;cndid=51708673&amp;utm_content=Final&amp;utm_term=Thematic_Ballot_Subscribers\">\u201cCould the Coronavirus Pandemic Change Iran\u2019s Political Future?,\u201d<\/a> Dorothy Wickenden, New Yorker, May 21, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has spent as much as $30 billion to help Syria win its civil war and keep President Bashar Al-Assad in power, and maintain its campaign to fully control Lebanon and one day eliminate Israel.\u00a0 MP Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, who has been a vital part of Iran\u2019s national security and foreign policy commission, revealed this yesterday &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/05\/21\/908\/\" 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-908","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\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}