{"id":20005,"date":"2019-02-02T06:52:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T11:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20005"},"modified":"2019-02-02T06:52:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T11:52:03","slug":"news-and-analysis-2-2-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20005","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (2\/2\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;I believe that art in the face of censorship is like water in the face  of a stone. The water will find a way to flow around  it&#8221; &#8212;  Asghar Farhadi:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/31\/magazine\/asghar-farhadis-iran-film.html\">How Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Greatest Director Makes Art of Moral Ambiguity<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A federal judge&#8217;s denial of a stay of execution because the man is denied the presence of a Muslim religious adviser in the death chamber is the equivalent of denying a Catholic the last rites of the Church:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2019\/02\/muslim-chaplain-says-he-should-be-with-death-row-inmate-at-execution.html\">Muslim Chaplain: Death Row Inmate Needs Imam at Execution<\/a> (al.com)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There is &#8220;a growing generational divide &#8230; pitting an old guard of stalwart supporters of Israel against an ascendant wing of young liberals \u00e2\u20ac\u201d including many young Jews&#8221; critical of Israeli human rights violations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/01\/us\/politics\/ilhan-omar-rashida-tlaib-israel.html\">From Celebrated to Vilified, House\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Muslim Women Absorb Blows over Israel<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>After &#8220;a Tel Aviv event sponsored by U.S.&#8221;, &#8220;IAEA calls pressure on Iran monitoring \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcextremely harmful\u00e2\u20ac\u2122&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-02-01\/fake-news-goes-nuclear-as-iaea-sees-u-s-israel-meddling-on-iran\">UN Nuclear Watchdog Thinks Israel and U.S. Are Meddling on Iran<\/a> (Bloomberg)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I reported on everything people did&#8230;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230; [A] long beard or some religious text on your phone, &#8230; [having studied] abroad or .. a long-distance phone call with someone overseas &#8230; could all land you in detention&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/blogs\/asia\/2019\/01\/exposed-china-surveillance-muslim-uighurs-190130011449217.html\">Exposed: China&#8217;s Surveillance of Muslim Uighurs<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Iran Venezuela Bi-National Bank, Iran tied its fortunes to a loser due to &#8220;low volumes of bilateral trade, problems of transparency, currency fluctuations and Venezuela\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aversion to using hard currency:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-02-01\/iran-slams-u-s-over-venezuela-secretly-some-may-be-relieved\">Iran Slams U.S. over Venezuela. 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