{"id":8076,"date":"2010-09-14T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T21:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2010-09-14T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T21:02:08","slug":"tuesday-iran-talking-points-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/14\/tuesday-iran-talking-points-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Iran Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog<\/a>: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 14th, 2010:<\/em><\/p>\n

Reuters<\/a><\/em>: Louis Charbonneau reports Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to attend a UN-meeting next week on moving forward global disarmament talks, which have been stalled for the past 12 years, during the annual General Assembly gathering of global leaders. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The schedule has not been firmly set, but I understand [Ahmadinejad] is going to participate in the high-level meeting on disarmament,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters. It is not clear who will be the U.S. delegate. President Obama, who has identified nuclear disarmament a major foreign policy initiative of his first term, will probably be attending other meetings.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>: Thomas Erdbrink reports Iranian authorities released American hiker Sara Shourd on bail who then boarded a plane to meet family in Oman. Shourd and two other American hikers were arrested last year when they reportedly crossed into Iran from northern Iraq. All three of the hikers face espionage related charges but Shourd, who has been reported to be in poor health, has been permitted to leave Iran on $500,000 bail. Iran has indicated Shourd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two hiking companions will be detained for at least another two months. Shourd is obliged to return to Iran for future legal proceedings.<\/p>\n

Foreign Policy<\/a><\/em>: Robert Satloff, the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP)<\/a>, an often hawkish spin-off of AIPAC<\/a>, observes Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest test in Middle East peacemaking will how he deals with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the regional challenge that poses the most serious consequences for Middle East security\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nuclear program. Only with a clearly articulated policy will the U.S. have enough regional clout to forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, he argues. Satloff comments, without evidence, that Obama has abandoned \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclinkage\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and espouses in its place \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcreverse linkage<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc Experts doubt sanctions will work, he says, which \u00e2\u20ac\u0153leaves U.S. military power as the last repository of credibility\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for a U.S. commitment to stopping an Iranian bomb. He concludes that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153U.S. action to prevent Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s march toward a nuclear weapons capability would buoy America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friends and undermine its adversaries from Morocco through the Persian Gulf.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

New York Times<\/a><\/em>: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPoliticus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 columnist John Vinocur questions the direction of Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leadership on Iran. Citing some hawks, including neocon Robert Kagan<\/a>, Vinocur focuses on Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s August meeting with journalists where the President touted his record on sanctions (summed up in our August 5th Talking Points<\/a>). He notes ahead of that briefing, CIA director Leon Panetta, his predecessor Michael Hayden, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen all seemed to hint about the possibility of a U.S. strike against Iran. Only, writes Vinocur, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nothing was reported among the president\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comments to match it in substance or tonality.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Carnegie Endowment official George Perkovich told Vinocur, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it would be desirable for the United States to have credible use of force in relation to Iran, but in my view we do not.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Vinocur cites Tony Blair\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent blustering<\/a> and draws the conclusion that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153American leadership is difficult to detect.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 14th, 2010: Reuters: Louis Charbonneau reports Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to attend a UN-meeting next week on moving forward global disarmament talks, which have been stalled for the past 12 years, during the annual General Assembly gathering of global leaders. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The schedule has […]<\/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-8076","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\/8076","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=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8077,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions\/8077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}