{"id":8318,"date":"2010-10-12T14:07:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T22:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8318"},"modified":"2010-10-12T14:07:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T22:07:53","slug":"tuesday-iran-talking-points-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/12\/tuesday-iran-talking-points-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Iran Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog<\/a>: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 12th, 2010:<\/em><\/p>\n

Jewish Telegraphic Agency<\/a><\/em>: An American Jewish Committee poll found that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jewish approval of President Obama is dropping,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to JTA<\/em>. On Iran, the poll found \u00e2\u20ac\u0153American Jewish confidence in Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach to Iran also has fallen\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to 43 percent approval. Nearly 60 percent of those American Jews polled approved of military action to prevent an Iranian bomb, and a third disapproved. Seventy percent approved of Israeli military action, which just over a quarter of respondents opposed.<\/p>\n

Commentary<\/a><\/em>: Since Obama seems unlikely to strike Iran, Jennifer Rubin, writing at the Contentions blog, cited the responses to questions about Iran in the AJC poll reported by JTA<\/a> as the central reason for the overall dip in approval. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In answer to the question of whether anything can wean Jews of their \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsick addiction<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc to the Democratic Party\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d referencing Rachel Abrams<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the answer seems to be \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcObama,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she writes.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/a><\/em>: Lesley Wroughton reports that on Friday Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Economy Minister Shamseddin Hosseini accused the World Bank of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153discriminatory behavior\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in its decision not to authorize new development assistance in Iran. Hosseini said that development and humanitarian assistance were not part of UN sanctions and that the Bank\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s refusal to consider a new lending strategy to Iran went against the Bank\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s articles of agreement. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The shocking point is that, based on inquiry made from the legal department of the World Bank, the developmental and humanitarian projects are excluded from the imposed sanctions on Iran,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hosseini said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in no section of the legal opinion reasons can be found to reduce relations and not financing such new projects.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d U.S. lawmakers have pressured the Bank to cut its lending to Iran.<\/p>\n

Foreign Policy<\/a><\/em>: Iranian analysts tend to use Red China, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to contextualize and predict Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s behavior. Carnegie Endowment Associate Karim Sadjadpour looks at those examples, rejects two and chooses one. Using former U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1947 essay on the Soviet Union, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Sources of Soviet Conduct<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a template, Sadjadpour substitutes references to the former USSR with words related to the Islamic Republic and offers a guide to how the U.S. should manage its Iran policy. Sadjadpour rejects the China comparison, and the ensuing strategy of rapprochement. He concludes anti-Americanism is too deeply ingrained in the identity of the Islamic Republic. Instead, the U.S. should put aside fears that Iran is expansionist or genocidal\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthere is little evidence to support these fears\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand accept that U.S. policies might not bring immediate change in Iran. Instead, the parallels to the Soviet Union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153siege mentality\u00e2\u20ac\u009d should help form a new U.S. policy based on Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s longterm strategic weaknesses and, ultimately, unsustainable security policies and revolutionary ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 12th, 2010: Jewish Telegraphic Agency: An American Jewish Committee poll found that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jewish approval of President Obama is dropping,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to JTA. On Iran, the poll found \u00e2\u20ac\u0153American Jewish confidence in Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach to Iran also has fallen\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to 43 percent approval. Nearly 60 […]<\/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-8318","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\/8318","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=8318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8319,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions\/8319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8318"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}