{"id":8252,"date":"2010-10-04T13:15:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T21:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8252"},"modified":"2010-10-04T13:15:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T21:15:56","slug":"monday-iran-talking-points-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/04\/monday-iran-talking-points-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Iran Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog<\/a>: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 4th, 2010:<\/em><\/p>\n

New York Times<\/a><\/em>: Though details are not available, William Yong writes that Iranian authorities have arrested an unspecified number of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nuclear spies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in connection with the Stuxnet virus infecting computers at Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nuclear operations. In his announcement, Iranian intelligence minister Heydar Moslehi said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The intelligence Ministry is aware of a range of activities being carried out against the Islamic Republic by enemy spy services.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Separately, the head of Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s state-run information technology company hopes to clear the virus out of Iranian systems in the next \u00e2\u20ac\u0153one to two months.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Washington Post<\/a><\/em>: Former peace process negotiator and State Department advisor Aaron David Miller lays out \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Five Myths about Middle East Peace.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The Wilson Center public policy scholar attempts to debunk the myth that Arab-Israel peace is critical to securing U.S. interests in the Middle East with an anti-linkage argument: White \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[i]t would help [regional issues… Arab-Israeli peace] will not stop Iran from acquiring enough fissile material to make a nuclear weapon.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Writing on her Commentary <\/em>blog, neocon and reverse-linkage crusader<\/a> Jennifer Rubin gets Miller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name wrong and gives him a back-handed complement in her select reading<\/a> of his analysis. But Think Progress\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Matt Duss dissents<\/a>, writing that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no one has ever claimed that Arab-Israeli peace would do any of these things,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but rather peace will \u00e2\u20ac\u0153make addressing those problems easier, by sealing up a well of resentment from which demagogues and violent extremists have for decades drawn freely and profitably.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

National Journal<\/a><\/em>: At the magazine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s National Security blog, editor Richard Sia poses a question: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Will Saber Rattling And Sanctions Work Against Iran?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Steven Metz of the Strategic Studies Institute of the Army War College, responds, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No, of course not.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But of a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, he writes: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is hard to imagine a greater strategic folly.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Metz lists a myriad of disastrous likely consequences of such a strike, and argues for Soviet-style containment of a nuclear Iran. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is absolutely no evidence that a nuclear armed Iran would undertake conventional aggression,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he writes. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153However repulsive the Iranian regime, there is no evidence that it is suicidal.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He writes that in a cost-benefit analysis, the costs of attacking Iran are too high for the U.S.: [A]s the United States develops its approach, the the focus must remain on AMERICAN national interests (Are you listening, Senator Lieberman?).\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 4th, 2010: New York Times: Though details are not available, William Yong writes that Iranian authorities have arrested an unspecified number of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nuclear spies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in connection with the Stuxnet virus infecting computers at Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nuclear operations. In his announcement, Iranian intelligence minister Heydar Moslehi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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-8252","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\/8252","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8253,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions\/8253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8252"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}