{"id":8677,"date":"2010-12-02T17:04:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T01:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8677"},"modified":"2010-12-02T17:04:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T01:04:38","slug":"thursday-iran-talking-points-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/02\/thursday-iran-talking-points-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Iran Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog<\/a>: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 2nd, 2010:<\/em><\/p>\n

Commentary<\/a><\/em>: Abe Greenwald writes on Commentary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Contentions blog that the Obama administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153paralysis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in responding to North Korea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent artillery attack on South Korea \u00e2\u20ac\u0153makes one thing clear: we cannot, for any reason, allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Greenwald warns that, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If guessing at Kim Jong-il\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s motives makes fools of us all, just imagine trying to react to a nuclear theocratic thug-state perpetually sponsoring regional terror and frozen in a cold domestic revolution.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d While Pyongyang might settle for talks or further aid, he argues Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leaders seek only to destroy the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n

The Weekly Standard<\/a><\/em>: Thomas Joscelyn blogs that WikiLeaks cables have shown a link between Iran and al-Qaeda. Citing a cable which summarizes a conversation with Saudia Arabia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Prince Nayif bi Abdulaziz, Joscelyn points to Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alleged hosting Osama bin Laden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s youngest son, Ibrahim bin Laden. Joscelyn rather looks into this and finds \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is little publicly-available information on him. However, U.S. intelligence officials contacted by THE WEEKLY STANDARD say that he is quickly rising through al Qaeda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ranks \u00e2\u20ac\u201c just like his brothers.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He concludes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The State Department\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s September 2009 cable is just the latest U.S. government document released by WikiLeaks that connects Iran and al Qaeda.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

National Review Online<\/a><\/em>: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies<\/a> president, Clifford May<\/a>, writes that when being frisked at the airport it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important to remember that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153jihadi terrorists are the enemy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and thus responsible for our privacy invasions \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and not the TSA. May segues into the warning that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Islamic Republic of Iran has long been the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading sponsor of terrorism,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and takes a swipe at Turkey. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been moving closer to Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rulers even as they have unleashed waves of repression against Iranian dissenters,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he writes. May concludes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153For the traveling public, that means directing our anger not at the TSA but at the Islamist terrorists\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6who see[s] the airport as a field of battle in the great war of the 21st century.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 2nd, 2010: Commentary: Abe Greenwald writes on Commentary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Contentions blog that the Obama administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153paralysis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in responding to North Korea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent artillery attack on South Korea \u00e2\u20ac\u0153makes one thing clear: we cannot, for any reason, allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Greenwald warns […]<\/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-8677","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\/8677","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=8677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8678,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions\/8678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8677"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}