{"id":8704,"date":"2010-12-03T20:12:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T04:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8704"},"modified":"2010-12-03T20:12:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T04:12:43","slug":"friday-iran-talking-points-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/03\/friday-iran-talking-points-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Iran Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog<\/a>: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 3rd, 2010:<\/em><\/p>\n

National Review Online<\/a><\/em>: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies<\/a> Benjamin Weinthal blogs on a WikiLeaks cable that had originated in the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. Apparently, a senior adviser to Angela Merkel, Christoph Heusgen, proposed a quid-pro-quo relationship between Netanyahu ending settlement construction and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153favorable\u00e2\u20ac\u009d treatment of the Goldstone Report in the UN Security Council. Weinthal refutes the possibility of linkage between ending settlement construction and achieving peace between Israel and its neighbors. Instead, he rolls out the neoconservative trope of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153reverse linkage,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d arguing, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[U.S. diplomats\u00e2\u20ac\u2122] willingness, like that of President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton, to remain incurably fixated on the construction of housing complexes as the impediment to peace shows the dangerous merger of American and EU foreign policy. Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s drive to obtain nuclear weapons is relegated to an inferior status \u00e2\u20ac\u201d at the expense of global security.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>: Jennifer Rubin interviews Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Post for the Right Turn blog, extracting tough talk from him on Iran. She writes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153McConnell agrees with those who think strong measures are needed to disrupt the Iranian regime\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nuclear program: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhat I am saying is that we should be squeezing these guys like a lemon.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 He says he senses, as the WikiLeaks documents suggested, that Arab leaders are deeply worried and believe \u00e2\u20ac\u02dconly we have the swat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to deal with the threat.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Pajamas Media<\/a><\/em>: Foundation for Defense of Democracies<\/a>‘ \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Freedom Scholar\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Michael Ledeen<\/a> transcribes a made-up conversation with a dead friend, former CIA counter-intelligence official James Jesus Angleton. They banter about a number of possible conspiracies within the ongoing news stories about Iran \u00e2\u20ac\u201caddressing the Stuxnet virus, the WikiLeaks cable dump, and the bombing of two Iranian nuclear scientists in Tehran. Ledeen, feigning use of a Ouija board, has his ghost friend suggest that the Russians could be behind the Stuxnet virus, and that the murdered Iranian nuclear scientists could have been killed by Tehran for their (possible) collusion with the Russians, Israelis, or Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 3rd, 2010: National Review Online: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies Benjamin Weinthal blogs on a WikiLeaks cable that had originated in the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. Apparently, a senior adviser to Angela Merkel, Christoph Heusgen, proposed a quid-pro-quo relationship between Netanyahu ending settlement […]<\/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-8704","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\/8704","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=8704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8705,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions\/8705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8704"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}