{"id":4085,"date":"2007-11-29T15:50:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T22:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/29\/barbara-slavin\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T15:50:40","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T22:50:40","slug":"barbara-slavin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/29\/barbara-slavin\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Slavin"},"content":{"rendered":"[audio:http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/charles\/aw2007-11-28barbaraslavin.mp3]\n<p>Senior diplomatic reporter for USA Today Barbara Slavin, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bitter-Friends-Bosom-Enemies-Confrontation\/dp\/0312368259\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1196375704&#038;sr=1-1\/antiwarbookstore\"><em>Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation<\/em><\/a>,  discusses the likelihood of war with Iran, their exclusion from the Annapolis conference, and how the U.S. has helped the &#8220;neoconservative&#8221; hardliners in Iran by spurning every peace offer of the Iranian moderates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/charles\/aw2007-11-28barbaraslavin.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (18:20)<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Slavin is the senior diplomatic reporter for <em>USA Today<\/em> since 1996, with the responsibility for analyzing foreign news and U.S. foreign policy. Sha has covered such key issues as the U.S.-led war on terrorism, policy toward &#8220;rogue&#8221; states, the reform movement in Iran and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Sha has also accompanied two Secretaries of State on their official travels and reported from Libya, Israel, Egypt, North Korea, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush&#8217;s Gifts to Iran&#8217;s Neocons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"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\/4085","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}