{"id":82791,"date":"2020-07-19T13:18:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T18:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=82791"},"modified":"2020-07-19T13:18:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T18:18:05","slug":"news-and-analysis-7-19-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=82791","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/19\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The secret authorization&#8211;issued sometime in 2018&#8211;offered the US spy agency more freedom to both conduct cyber operations and choose its targets without the White House&#8217;s approval&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"Report: CIA Conducted Cyber Attacks Againhttps:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/siladityaray\/2020\/07\/15\/report-cia-conducted-cyber-attacks-against-iran-russia-after-secret-trump-order-in-2018\/#410e68f84600st Iran, Russia After Secret Trump Order In 2018\">Report: CIA Conducted Cyber Attacks Against Iran, Russia After Secret Trump Order in 2018<\/a> (Forbes)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Iranian law allows those convicted to appeal again even after an appeals court has upheld the original verdict&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-53463685\">Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Top Court Halts Death Sentence of Young Protesters<\/a> (AP)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Voluntary actors work alongside NGOs; mutual aid is non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic, and more sustainable in the longer term:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/indepthnews.net\/index.php\/opinion\/3699-long-before-covid-19-muslim-communities-in-india-built-solidarity-through-mutual-aid\">Long Before COVID-19, Muslim Communities in India Built Solidarity Through Mutual Aid<\/a> (IDN Indepth News)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s  foreign minister said any conclusion should come from international investigation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-53456830\">Iran Sends Black Box of Ukrainian Plane to France<\/a> (BBC)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Muslim women are increasingly successful in a genre with a &#8220;traditional lack of diversity and popular depictions of women and Islam&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/muslim-women-are-building-new-worlds-in-science-fiction-and-changing-the-confines-of-the-genre\/2020\/07\/17\/ddea6a6e-c7aa-11ea-a99f-3bbdffb1af38_story.html\">Muslim Women Are Building New Worlds in Science Fiction and Changing the Confines of the Genre<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/profile\/nkosi-zwelivelile-mandela.html\">Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela<\/a> says that when Israelis ask &#8220;Where is the Palestinian Mandela?&#8221; they are deliberately distorting the legacy of his &#8220;revolutionary, intellectual and freedom fighter&#8221; grandfather:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/israel-lobbyists-occupied-mandela-legacy-200715104039867.html\">How Israel&#8217;s Lobbyists Occupied Mandela&#8217;s Legacy<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Iran is signaling Europe and a potential Biden administration after the United States November election that US an Europe policies threaten to drive the Islamic republic into the arms of China&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/the-china-iran-deal-its-not-about-business-but-geopolitical-poker\/\">The China Iran Deal: It is Not About Business but Geopolitical Poker <\/a>(Global Village Space)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The mysterious fires in Iran continue &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-mysterious-new-explosion-rocks-power-plant\/1915429\">Iran: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMysterious\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 New Explosion Rocks Power Plant<\/a> (Andalou Agency)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; will Tehran respond using old methods of retaliation? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/j-j-green-national\/2020\/07\/the-hunt-iran-promises-retaliation-for-cyber-attacks-terrorism-likely\/\">The Hunt: Iran Promises Retaliation for Cyber Attacks, Terrorism Likely<\/a> (WTOP)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;An array of loitering munitions, often dubbed &#8216;suicide&#8217; or &#8216;kamikaze&#8217; drones, that could very soon revolutionize the way wars are fought in &#8230; [the] volatile&#8221; Middle East:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/pauliddon\/2020\/07\/19\/turkey-israel-and-iran-have-built-some-very-lethal-loitering-munitions\/#3c4f3e5c59de\">Turkey, Israel, And Iran Have Built Some Very Lethal Loitering Munitions<\/a> (Forbes)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The secret authorization&#8211;issued sometime in 2018&#8211;offered the US spy agency more freedom to both conduct cyber operations and choose its targets without the White House&#8217;s approval&#8221;: Report: CIA Conducted Cyber Attacks Against Iran, Russia After Secret Trump Order in 2018 (Forbes) &#8220;Iranian law allows those convicted to appeal again even after an appeals court has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122827,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82791","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\/82791","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\/122827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82791"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82820,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82791\/revisions\/82820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}