{"id":8519,"date":"2010-11-11T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T21:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8519"},"modified":"2010-11-11T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T21:45:11","slug":"thursday-iran-talking-points-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/11\/thursday-iran-talking-points-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Iran Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lobelog.com\/\">LobeLog<\/a>: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 11th, 2010:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/252985\/obama-gets-it-wrong-israel-and-canadas-harper-gets-it-right-benjamin-weinthal#\">National Review Online<\/a><\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/Foundation_for_Defense_of_Democracies\">Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)<\/a> fellow Benjamin Weinthal blogs that while U.S. President Barack Obama used his trip to Indonesia to scold Israel for new settlement construction in east Jerusalem, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper \u00e2\u20ac\u0153found the right language this week\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by defending Israel against its critics. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Obama lacks a singleness of purpose when it comes to stopping Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s drive to go nuclear,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d writes Weinthal. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153One hopes that Act III of Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foreign policy toward the Middle East will focus not on housing units in Jerusalem but on compelling Iran to stop its drive to go nuclear,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he concludes.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpoliticsreview.com\/articles\/7008\/natos-missile-defense-challenge\">World Politics Review<\/a><\/em>: WPR senior editor and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/Hudson_Institute\">Hudson Institute<\/a> senior fellow Richard Weitz examines the issue of whether a ballistic missile defense (BMD) should become a NATO alliance-wide mission, noting that Washington would like to see NATO leaders offer a collective commitment to BMD. Weitz writes both the Obama administration and NATO leaders \u00e2\u20ac\u0153share American concerns about Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s emerging potential to launch ballistic missiles, perhaps armed with a nuclear warhead, against European targets.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 11th, 2010: National Review Online: Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) fellow Benjamin Weinthal blogs that while U.S. President Barack Obama used his trip to Indonesia to scold Israel for new settlement construction in east Jerusalem, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper \u00e2\u20ac\u0153found the right [&hellip;]<\/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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_social_image_id":0,"_social_image_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8519","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":"","_social_image_id":false,"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519","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=8519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8520,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519\/revisions\/8520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8519"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}