{"id":8791,"date":"2010-12-14T13:08:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T21:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8791"},"modified":"2010-12-14T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T21:08:25","slug":"tuesday-iran-talking-points-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/tuesday-iran-talking-points-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 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 December 14th, 2010:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/iran-connection_520695.html?nopager=1\">The Weekly Standard<\/a><\/em>: Stephen F. Hayes and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/Foundation_for_Defense_of_Democracies\">Foundation for Defense of Democracies<\/a> fellow Thomas Joscelyn write, in an article called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Iran Connection\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, that Undersecretary of State William Burns, in his Dec. 1 appearance before the House Foreign Affairs committee, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chose not to mention that the leaders of Iran have been fighting a stealth war against the United States, its soldiers, and its citizens.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hayes and Joscelyn point back to the WikiLeaks cables alleging that Iran hosted Osama bin Laden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s son Ibrahim, and repeat the allegations that Iran has hosted senior al Qaeda terrorists \u00e2\u20ac\u0153for years,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d provided assistance to the Taliban and armed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153violent extremists\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Iraq. They conclude, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nearly a decade after the 9\/11 attacks, not only do we have abundant evidence that Iran, the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foremost state sponsor of terror, supports al Qaeda. We also have evidence that Iran actively assists terrorists and insurgents targeting our soldiers and diplomats in two war zones.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/michaelledeen\/2010\/12\/13\/iran-the-war-of-the-persian-succession-cont\/\">Pajamas Media<\/a><\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/Foundation_for_Defense_of_Democracies\">Foundation for Defense of Democracies<\/a> (FDD) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Freedom Scholar\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/Ledeen_Michael\">Michael Ledeen<\/a> attempts to draw parallels between the current state of domestic politics in Tehran, particularly in light of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lobelog.com\/ahmadinejad-cans-fm-replaces-with-nuke-chief\/\">the firing of Iranian Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki<\/a>, and Thomas Hobbes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Leviathan. Ledeen concludes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t try to decipher the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmeaning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of any one of the melodramatic events in Iran today or tomorrow;  just remember that the leaders of the regime are fighting for survival, knowing that the Iranian people hate them, and suspecting each other of betrayal.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 14th, 2010: The Weekly Standard: Stephen F. Hayes and Foundation for Defense of Democracies fellow Thomas Joscelyn write, in an article called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Iran Connection\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, that Undersecretary of State William Burns, in his Dec. 1 appearance before the House Foreign Affairs committee, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chose not [&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":"","_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-8791","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\/8791","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=8791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8792,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions\/8792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8791"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}