{"id":8867,"date":"2010-12-22T16:32:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T00:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8867"},"modified":"2010-12-22T16:32:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T00:32:15","slug":"wednesday-iran-talking-points-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/22\/wednesday-iran-talking-points-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Iran Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog<\/a>: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 22nd, 2010:<\/em><\/p>\n

Commentary<\/a><\/em>: Jonathan Tobin writes on Commentary<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Contentions blog that the Obama administration has fallen for the Iranian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ploy of practicing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fabian diplomacy in which they play upon the West\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s belief in negotiations with endless delays.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tobin says that the administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s position that the West could accept Iran enriching uranium for peaceful purposes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153is an open invitation to Iran for more stalling and pretense,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153is a signal that Obama and Clinton are willing to appease Ahmadinejad in order to gain his signature on an agreement that will pretend to stop an Iranian nuke but will, in fact, facilitate one.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tobin, attacking Tony Karon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent piece<\/a> in The National<\/em>, concludes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153talk of a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdiplomatic solution\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccould be years in the making\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 helps to stifle the calls for action against Iran from sensible Americans that rightly fear the consequences of the mullahs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 gaining possession of a nuclear weapon while giving Ahmadinejad and his confederates all the breathing space they need.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

USA Today<\/a><\/em>: Sarah Palin opines that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to get tough with Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and repeats the hawkish, but misleading<\/a>, talking points about the WikiLeaks cables showing that Arab leaders want the U.S. to attack Iranian nuclear facilities. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If Iran isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stopped from obtaining nuclear weapons, it could trigger a regional nuclear arms race in which these countries would seek their own nuclear weapons to protect themselves,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d writes Palin. Stressing the threat to Israel posed by a nuclear Iran, Palin writes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Iran already possesses missiles that can reach Israel. Once these missiles are armed with nuclear warheads, nothing could stop the mullahs from launching a second Holocaust.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She calls for dramatically tighter sanctions, advocates the threat of military force and states that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I agree with the former British prime minister Tony Blair, who said recently that the West must be willing to use force \u00e2\u20ac\u0153if necessary\u00e2\u20ac\u009d if that is the only alternative.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>: Jennifer Rubin blogs on the Post<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for the U.S. to give up on the Israeli Palestinian peace process and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153do something more productive.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She advises the administration to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fire George Mitchell (whom neither side trusts), work on Palestinian institution-building, and go after the main sponsor of regional terrorism, Iran.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rubin argues against \u00e2\u20ac\u0153linkage<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d again <\/a>(making it explicit with a tweet<\/a>), writing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Obama administration was convinced that a peace deal would bring about progress on Iran. This was another false premise.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She repeats the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153reverse linkage<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d argument that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153regime change in Iran would help to stem the supply of weapons and support to Hamas and Hezbollah and re-establish the U.S.-Israel relationship as the essential component in a stable, peaceful Middle East.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 22nd, 2010: Commentary: Jonathan Tobin writes on Commentary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Contentions blog that the Obama administration has fallen for the Iranian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ploy of practicing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fabian diplomacy in which they play upon the West\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s belief in negotiations with endless delays.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tobin says that the administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s position that […]<\/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-8867","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\/8867","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=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8868,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions\/8868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}