{"id":84058,"date":"2021-03-20T16:19:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T21:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84058"},"modified":"2021-03-20T16:19:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T21:19:37","slug":"news-and-analysis-3-20-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84058","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 3\/20\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We came here legally and my husband wants to come here legally\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8212; a U.S. green card holder:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/biden-rescinded-muslim-ban-many-families-remain-stuck-backlog-n1261631\">Biden Rescinded the &#8216;Muslim Ban.&#8217; But Many Families Remain Stuck in the Backlog<\/a> (NBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saudi minister Adel Al-Jubeil stated on Friday that the missiles using to attack its Aramco refineries were &#8220;Iranian-manufactured or Iranian-supplied&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-03-20\/saudi-arabia-says-missiles-in-aramco-attacks-were-made-in-iran\">Saudi Arabia Says Missiles in Aramco Attacks Were Made in Iran<\/a> (Bloomberg)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran intends to begin cold testing its restored Arak nuclear reactor which U.S.-abandoned JCPOA had shut down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20210320-iran-to-start-cold-testing-arak-nuclear-reactor\/\">Iran to Start Cold Testing Arak Nuclear Reactor<\/a> (Middle East Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Polls show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-elections\/israel-elections-final-polls-suggest-continued-political-deadlock-662567\">the Israeli election is headed for a &#8220;deadlock&#8221;<\/a> as a desperate Netanyahu seeks to support from those so extreme as to have been outlawed even as he tries to buy Arab votes with promises of government funding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1yK38zHKr-bpWiUgXJUeZs-0zsnVR-1XlXrht3pXUDwQ\/edit#\"> Netanyahu Turns to Extremist Party that Calls for Expelling Arabs from Israel<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/israel-election-netanyahu-arab-voters\/2021\/03\/18\/72bfe4de-85c4-11eb-be4a-24b89f616f2c_story.html\">In Turnabout, Netanyahu Courts Arab Voters He Once Called a Threat<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Americans and their followers are acting like pirates as they are targeting the Syrian oil wealth and oil supplies&#8221; &#8212; Syrian oil minister Bassam Tomaa:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20210320-us-controls-90-of-syria-oil\/\">US Controls 90% of Syrian Oil<\/a> (Middle East Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israeli soldiers shot 42-year old Atef Yussef Hanaysheh in the head with live ammunition as he demonstrated against a wildcat settlement near his village. Israel says the villagers were throwing rocks at the occupation army:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/3\/19\/palestinian-killed-by-israel-army-in-west-bank-ministry\">Palestinian Killed by Israeli Army in West Bank<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The U.N. charges Iran&#8217;s use of prolonged solitary confinement and sleep deprivation against the scientist who went to &#8220;Iran to attend workshops on disaster medicine&#8221; constitute torture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UN Rights Experts Call on Iran to End Torture of Swedish Scientist Ahmadreza Djalali (Jurist)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s prime minister Imran Khan tested positive for COVID-19 just two days after receiving his first dose of the Sinopharm vaccine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/20\/world\/asia\/imran-khan-coronavirus-positive.html\">Pakistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Prime Minister Tests Positive for the Coronavirus<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We came here legally and my husband wants to come here legally\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8212; a U.S. green card holder: Biden Rescinded the &#8216;Muslim Ban.&#8217; But Many Families Remain Stuck in the Backlog (NBC News) Saudi minister Adel Al-Jubeil stated on Friday that the missiles using to attack its Aramco refineries were &#8220;Iranian-manufactured or Iranian-supplied&#8221;: Saudi Arabia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84058","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\/84058","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\/158132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84058"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84069,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84058\/revisions\/84069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}