{"id":7685,"date":"2010-08-11T14:50:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T22:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=7685"},"modified":"2010-08-11T14:50:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T22:50:58","slug":"wednesday-iran-talking-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/wednesday-iran-talking-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Iran Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog<\/a>: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 11th, 2010:<\/em><\/p>\n

The Atlantic<\/a><\/em>: Jeffrey Goldberg, in his long awaited cover story, claims that an Israeli unilateral attack on alleged Iranian nuclear facilities is inevitable if the United States and its allies fail to strike first. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have come to believe that the administration knows it is a near-certainty that Israel will act against Iran soon if nothing or no one else stops the nuclear program; and Obama knows\u00e2\u20ac\u201das his aides, and others in the State and Defense departments made clear to me\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat a nuclear-armed Iran is a serious threat to the interests of the United States, which include his dream of a world without nuclear weapons,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d writes Goldberg. (I responded<\/a> to Goldberg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s article yesterday.)<\/p>\n

The Washington Note<\/a><\/em>: Steve Clemons offers his thoughts on Jeffrey Goldberg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prediction that, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the likelihood of Israel unilaterally bombing Iran to curtail a potential nuclear weapon breakout capacity is north of 50-50.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Clemons writes that, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6doubts about the sanity and rationality of Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leadership may be driving Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leaders to abandon pragmatic rationality and serious scrutiny of costs and benefits as well. Is this all real? Or are both sides puffing up, acting like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccrazy Ivans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, as part of a military strategy that could be bluff, or could be devastatingly severe?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Foreign Policy<\/a><\/em>: Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett argue that Goldberg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s case for a U.S. attack on Iran is, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153even flimsier than the case Goldberg helped make for invading Iraq in 2002.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Normalizing U.S.-Iran and Israel-Iran relations would profoundly benefit Israel and the United States, say the Leveretts.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em>: Paul Richter and Alexandra Sandels report that Iran told Lebanese officials that it will make up for the potential cutoff of U.S. aid to the Lebanese military. Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) and Rep. Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) decided to freeze military aid over concerns that such aid might be used against Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 11th, 2010: The Atlantic: Jeffrey Goldberg, in his long awaited cover story, claims that an Israeli unilateral attack on alleged Iranian nuclear facilities is inevitable if the United States and its allies fail to strike first. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have come to believe that the administration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"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-7685","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\/7685","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\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7686,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions\/7686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7685"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}