{"id":7927,"date":"2010-09-01T12:05:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T20:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=7927"},"modified":"2010-09-01T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T20:05:27","slug":"wednesday-iran-talking-points-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/01\/wednesday-iran-talking-points-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Iran Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog<\/a>: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 1st, 2010:<\/em><\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>: The WSJ <\/em>editorial board uses two 30-year-old letters from the Imam of the Park 51 community center, Feisal Abdul Rauf, to show Rauf\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alleged anti-Israel and pro-Iranian revolution leanings. Egyptian president Anwar Sadat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1977 outreach to Israel led Rauf to write, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In a true peace, Israel will, in our lifetimes, become one more Arab country, with a Jewish minority.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In a letter written after the 1979 Iranian revolution, he observed the American and Iranian revolution shared \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the very principles of individual rights and freedom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. In Rauf\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s response to the WSJ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s publication of his letters, he wrote, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As I re-read those letters now, I see that they express the same concerns\u00e2\u20ac\u201da desire for peaceful solutions in Israel, and for a humane understanding of Iran.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

National Review Online<\/a><\/em>: At NRO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Corner blog, Benjamin Weinthal lays out a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcreverse linkage\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d turning around the usual military<\/a>\/realist <\/a>thinking that Israeli-Arab peace will help the U.S. deal with other regional issues. He writes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To bring about peace with longevity between the Palestinians and Israel, the Obama administration has to confront Iran, which means promoting democracy in Iran and terminating its nuclear-weapons program.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Weinthal asserts, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153if the sanctions prove impotent, Obama will then have to turn to serious saber-rattling and lay out a blueprint for military intervention.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The statement rehashes the catchphrase from the early 2000s that \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthe road to Mid East peace runs through Baghdad<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c only now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rerouted through Tehran.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a><\/em>: David Sanger writes about the linkages between Israeli-Palestinian peace, Iraq and Iran. He argues while other presidents have dealt with these linkages, Obama faces a new variation with U.S. forces pulling out of Iraq, tough sanctions on Iran and and the slow emergence of a working Palestinian government in the West Bank. With the withdrawal from Iraq, Obama can claim victory over that source of instability and, according to Sanger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sources, progress on Iran. Sanger interviews WINEP <\/a>cofounders Martin Indyk, the Vice President for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Senior Mideast diplomat Dennis Ross<\/a>, special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Ross currently works out of the National Security Council, where he focuses on Iran, and has served in the past two administrations. Indyk and Ross agree sanctions have made progress in isolating and containing Iran. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We finally have leverage,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Ross, pointing to talk from Iranian officials about the possibility of negotiations with the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 1st, 2010: The Wall Street Journal: The WSJ editorial board uses two 30-year-old letters from the Imam of the Park 51 community center, Feisal Abdul Rauf, to show Rauf\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alleged anti-Israel and pro-Iranian revolution leanings. Egyptian president Anwar Sadat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1977 outreach to Israel led […]<\/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-7927","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\/7927","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=7927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7928,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions\/7928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7927"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}