{"id":20055,"date":"2019-02-16T09:25:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T14:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20055"},"modified":"2019-02-16T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T14:26:14","slug":"news-and-analysis-2-16-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20055","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (2\/16\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man who happens also to be the personal attorney of the President of the USA, suggested that peace in the Middle East &#8220;would only come when Iran was ruled instead by his clients,&#8230; an exile group of former terrorists&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/02\/13\/iran-netanyahu-giuliani\/\">As Giuliani Calls for Regime Change in Iran, Netanyahu Raises the Specter of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153War\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> (The Intercept)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With the FMs &#8220;of three Arab countries &#8230; harshly attacking Iran and defending Israel, and in one case saying that confronting the Islamic Republic is more pressing than solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/in-clip-leaked-by-pmo-arab-ministers-seen-defending-israel-attacking-iran\/\">In Clip Leaked by PMO, Arab Ministers Seen Defending Israel, Attacking Iran<\/a> (Times of Israel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; sharing &#8220;the stage with an Israeli prime minister at a summit that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even pretend to address the Palestinian issue clearly signaled that autocratic Arab rulers have openly abandoned the Palestinians&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/opinion\/warsaw-summit-was-failure-trump-win-netanyahu\">Warsaw Summit Was a Failure for Trump &#8211; but a Win for Netanyahu<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Washington decision-makers seeking\u00c2\u00a0 to affect the future of Iran court disaster if they fail &#8220;to understand that the Iranian regime is extremely complex and that there is immense diversity among the Iranian people&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgpolicy.org\/articles\/evolutionary-regime-change-in-iran\/\">Evolutionary Regime Change in Iran<\/a> (Center for Global Policy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Judges unanimously &#8220;rejected US claims the case should be thrown out because Iran had &#8216;unclean hands&#8217; from alleged links to &#8216;terrorism&#8217;, and the international tribunal in The Hague did not have jurisdiction&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/02\/icj-rules-iran-legal-claim-2bn-assets-frozen-190213114550097.html\">ICJ Rules Iran Has Legal Claim to $2bn in Assets Frozen by US<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;An assignment or presentation may be poorly phrased, but it does not rise to the level of being unconstitutional unless it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s part of a clear pattern&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/legal-issues\/christian-student-challenged-a-school-history-lesson-on-islam-and-lost-in-court\/2019\/02\/12\/2a7d78fa-2ee4-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html?utm_term=.95909ec1ea0f\">Christian Student Challenged a School History Lesson on Islam and Lost in Court<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[E]viction may amount to a forcible transfer, which is a grave breach of the fourth Geneva Convention&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2019\/02\/palestinian-families-jerusalem\/\">UN: Nearly 200 Palestinian Families in East Jerusalem Face Eviction Cases by Israeli Settler Orgs<\/a> (Mondoweiss)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Armed with video cameras and donning blue vests, the activists say they will replace the Temporary International Presence in Hebron&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/in-tense-west-bank-city-palestinians-try-to-fill-a-void\/505877152\/\">In Hebron, Palestinians Patrol in Place of Foreign Monitors<\/a> (AP \/ Star-Tribune)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Movement and life in the West Bank are governed by the whims of the Israeli security apparatus, which has set up hundreds of checkpoints, gates, &#8230; barriers, forbidden and segregated roads and &#8230; [an] apartheid wall&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/palestine-open-air-prison-190118065003667.html\">Palestine&#8217;s Other Open-air Prison<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We represent Islam &#8230; that is &#8230; tolerant, liberal, plural, and even accept some of the values of the west&#8221; &#8211;Anwar Ibrahim:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/02\/14\/the-truth-about-islam-and-democracy-with-anwar-ibrahim\/\">The Truth About Islam and Democracy<\/a> (The Intercept)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Iranian government is engaging with blockchain startups that are laying what could be the groundwork for a new token ecosystem&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/iran-blockcain-bank-bitcoin-crypto-token\">Blockchain Startups Are Modernizing Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Financial Infrastructure<\/a> (Coindesk)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; but while &#8220;[s[ome recent <a href=\"https:\/\/blokt.com\/news\/iran-unveils-payman-its-central-bank-issued-digital-currency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media reports<\/a> claim that Iran has \/launched&#8217; a state cryptocurrency based on gold called the Peyman. What really is happening, however, is less dramatic&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/technology\/430276-iran-faces-a-long-road-before-using-blockchain-to-evade-us-sanctions\">Iran Faces a Long Road Before Using Blockchain to Evade US Sanctions<\/a> (The Hill)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who happens also to be the personal attorney of the President of the USA, suggested that peace in the Middle East &#8220;would only come when Iran was ruled instead by his clients,&#8230; an exile group of former terrorists&#8221;: As Giuliani Calls for Regime Change in Iran, Netanyahu Raises the Specter of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153War\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20055"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20059,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055\/revisions\/20059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}