{"id":8937,"date":"2011-01-14T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T19:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8937"},"modified":"2011-01-18T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T19:36:46","slug":"friday-iran-talking-points-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/friday-iran-talking-points-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 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 January 15th, 2011:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/257105\/reading-developments-lebanon-benjamin-weinthal\">National Review Online<\/a><\/em>: The <a href=\"http:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/Foundation_for_Defense_of_Democracies\">Foundation for Defense of Democracies<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Benjamin Weinthal blogs on the collapse of Lebanon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s government on Wednesday, warning that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Iranian proxy Hezbollah\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has shown \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that the political Islamists rule the roost in Lebanese society.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Weinthal writes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Islamic Republic of Iran, Hezbollah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief sponsor, has been forced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Defense\/Article.aspx?id=199611\">reduce <\/a>its supply of military and financial aid to the Islamic fanatics by 40 percent. Over the years, the Iranian regime has pumped roughly $1 billion in military aid into Hezbollah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arsenal.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Weinthal concludes that the approval of $100 million in military aid for Lebanon could have been a mistake if Hezbollah somehow becomes the beneficiary of the military goods: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Plainly said, it is time that the U.S. discontinues military funds for Lebanon and redirect monies to pro\u00e2\u20ac\u201cLebanese democracy organizations.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2011\/01\/a-little-ahmadinejad-revisionism-for-you\/69505\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/goldberg_jeffrey\">Jeffrey Goldberg<\/a> responds to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2011\/01\/do-we-have-ahmadinejad-all-wrong\/69434\/\">post by Reza Aslan<\/a> in which Aslan suggests that Ahmadinejad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comments that Israel should be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wiped from the map\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has been mistranslated and does not imply that Israel, and its people, should be physically destroyed but that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153existing political borders should be wiped from a literal map.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Goldberg responds, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hmmm. So Israel should be replaced by Palestine, which is different than removing Israel from the map. Got it. What Ahmadinejad has been trying to say all along, then, is  \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcShabbat Shalom, Jews!.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He then sarcastically offers to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153clarify the record of the Holocaust-denying, eliminationist anti-Semitic Iranian president\u00e2\u20ac\u009d before reprinting a list of Ahmadinejad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comments about Israel and Jews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 15th, 2011: National Review Online: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Benjamin Weinthal blogs on the collapse of Lebanon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s government on Wednesday, warning that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Iranian proxy Hezbollah\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has shown \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that the political Islamists rule the roost in Lebanese society.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Weinthal writes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Islamic [&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-8937","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\/8937","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=8937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8947,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions\/8947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8937"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}