{"id":8890,"date":"2010-12-30T07:26:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T15:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2010-12-30T07:26:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T15:26:04","slug":"thursday-iran-talking-points-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/30\/thursday-iran-talking-points-19\/","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 December 30th, 2010:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/blogs\/index.php\/j-e-dyer\/385150\">Commentary<\/a><\/em>: J.E. Dyer, writing on Commentary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Contentions blog, says that Iran has sought to weaken the U.S. military\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s capabilities in the region by exploring bilateral defense agreements with Oman and Qatar and by exploiting the domestic political tensions between Shias and Sunnis in Bahrain.  All three countries host U.S. forces. These developments limit \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Washington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latitude to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153calibrate\u00e2\u20ac\u009d force,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sayd Dyer, and make our allies question whether siding with the U.S. could lead to retaltions from Iran. Dyer concludes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We may validly perceive benefits in waiting to take action [against Iran], but doing so always carries costs. This is one of them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/blogs\/index.php\/richman\/385117\">Commentary<\/a><\/em>: Rick Richman, also blogging on Contentions, critiques the Obama administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Middle East policy. Among other observations, he asserts that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the attempted dialogue with Iran and Syria produced predictable failures.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153American allies will gravitate toward Iran (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3998118,00.html\">they already are<\/a>), unless they soon hear a public commitment from the U.S. president to deal with the problem by whatever means necessary,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d writes Richman. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Talks with Iran cannot succeed absent its belief such means will, if necessary, be used.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 30th, 2010: Commentary: J.E. Dyer, writing on Commentary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Contentions blog, says that Iran has sought to weaken the U.S. military\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s capabilities in the region by exploring bilateral defense agreements with Oman and Qatar and by exploiting the domestic political tensions between Shias and Sunnis [&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-8890","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\/8890","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=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8891,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions\/8891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}