{"id":25405,"date":"2015-06-30T18:49:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T02:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=25405"},"modified":"2015-06-30T18:49:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T02:49:12","slug":"cnn-rattles-sabers-as-iran-talks-move-into-key-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/30\/cnn-rattles-sabers-as-iran-talks-move-into-key-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Rattles Sabers as Iran Talks Move Into Key Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a 7-day extension hinting at the possibility of a major breakthrough in nuclear negotiations with Iran, CNN turned the tables and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/06\/30\/politics\/military-options-bunker-busting-bomb-iran-talks\/\">instead released a story talking<\/a> about US bunker-busting bombs being put on standby. <\/p>\n<p>The focus on a &#8220;military option&#8221; against Iran, the idea that in the middle of key talks the US could just up and attack Iran out of the blue, wasn&#8217;t actually based on new anything US officials said. Indeed, the CNN piece relied solely on a single quote from Defense Secretary Ash Carter in an interview from way back in April. <\/p>\n<p>US officials do occasionally make puzzling decisions to threaten to attack Iran, but this was not one of those times, and rather CNN invented this story as a whole cloth exercise in 19th century-style yellow journalism.<\/p>\n<p>There is enough distrust between Iran and the West already, without the media inventing bogus stories about US bombs being readied to launch unilateral attacks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a 7-day extension hinting at the possibility of a major breakthrough in nuclear negotiations with Iran, CNN turned the tables and instead released a story talking about US bunker-busting bombs being put on standby. The focus on a &#8220;military option&#8221; against Iran, the idea that in the middle of key talks the US could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-25405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25406,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25405\/revisions\/25406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25405"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=25405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}